Clipart And Shopping Cart Icons Every time you click on a web store, you always see these cute little pictures and you wonder what those are or even what they do.  You click on one after another, and you wonder if they cost the web store owner any money or even if they offer stuff like that free.  You want more information, but have no idea where to look or even what to look for.

	Introduction To Icons Clipart, shopping cart icons, shopping cart icon clipart, or however you want to describe them are all over the Internet.  Shopping cart icons are used in every web store that you come across, and if they aren’t being used, then it won’t be long before the owner has them displayed.  These shopping cart icons are designed to make navigation easier.  It draws your eyes directly to it and creates a pleasant web page.  Icons in general are there to help make web page navigation more user friendly.  Pictures tend to do that, and humans tend to be drawn to colors and pictures.  Windows based programs are icon or clipart based, and any programs that run using this operating system would do so using the icons or clip art. Types Of Icons Available Shopping cart icons come in two general categories:  free and royalty based.  Free shopping cart icons normally are simple with a couple color variations.  Royalty based ones give you more variety.  These shopping cart icons might contain very vibrant colors, possibly 3D features, etc.  The royalty shopping cart icons are usually based on the free shopping cart icons.  Most places that sell royalty based icons use the free ones as their basis, and then they add things to it to make it a bit better than the original.  They might take a plain black and white shopping cart and add some color to it.  They might even take it and make it 2D or 3D just to have a bit of variety. Free Icons Sites A search on any search engine for shopping cart icons or any variation of these will bring up a lot of web pages that have those key words.  One website, http://www.bartelme.at/journal/archive/shopping_cart_icon/, offers one shopping cart icon that anyone can download if they need it.  It is completely free, and the icon isn’t half bad.  It looks like an actual shopping cart that you might use in any local grocery store or department store.  Another website, http://www.cursormania.com/dl/index.jhtml?spu=true&partner=ZCxdm768&ac=0, offers some free icons.  After making a cursory look, I didn’t see any that were an actual shopping cart, but there were many to look at.  An additional website you might want to try would be located at http://www.iconarchive.com/.  This website like many of the ones that offer free icons has a lot of different varieties.  This website, however, goes even further by grouping them in categories such as sports, places, holidays, and kids.  I tried a few of the categories that a shopping cart icon would appear in, but didn’t find it.  This isn’t to say that it doesn’t exist on this website, but that I couldn’t find it in the categories I looked in. Royalty Free Icons   Where can you get royalty free shopping cart icons?  One website called www.chameleonco.com offers them.  They have a decent variety of royalty free icons, and they group them in packages.  Royalty free in this case doesn’t mean that the icon is free, but that there are no additional charges for usage.  A royalty free icon is one that has a set price for its use, and once purchased, it can be used repeatedly by that person or company. Another website would be http://www.freeiconsdownload.com/.  This website gives you a variety of royalty free icons, which in this case are free.  If you look under their business icons, you will see the free shopping cart icons.  These are basic shopping cart icons that come in a couple colors and aren’t 3D.  They will serve their purpose though and will be fine until you can buy or find a better one.  In addition to the above websites, another one, http://www.iconshoppe.com/, might also be looked at for more information as well as more choices.  This website has royalty free icons, but they aren’t free by any means.  They have a package that is about $40, and it comes with options that are additional.  These options include more colors and different types of icons. Compare And Contrast Besides the obvious, royalty free shopping cart icons differ from free ones based on variety, price, features, etc.  A royalty free one can possess features that you might want in an icon such as having the ability to move across the page.  It might also be able to move up and down the page, and when you add things to your shopping cart, it might show you that something is there.  Sometimes, these show different holiday themes as well.  Free icons are normally decent to start with or if you are trying to save money.  A lot of web stores offer free icons along with their services.  These usually aren’t that bad on the eyes and can still show professionalism even though they are free.  The main point is to know what you are looking for.  If you can spend money on an icon, then make sure it is exactly what you want and not what the provider wants you to have.  If you don’t have any money to spend on one, but you have a web store, it might be best to obtain a free one rather than not having one at all.  If you have a web store but don’t have a shopping cart icon, your potential customers may find you to be too new a company to buy from, or may not consider you as professional as you want them to think you are.  Regardless of the budget, a shopping cart icon can be found using any search engine.

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