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November 2nd, 2007 1:04 amGreat selection of Icons.
I agree with you about the fact that design plays a very important roll in your subscriptions. - 3
November 2nd, 2007 2:37 amGreat article, and I am still in the process of switching to the new “standard” icon. I was using the old orange “RSS” buttons, and now I’m having to track them all down and change them…for the sake of good communication with my visitors.
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November 2nd, 2007 3:12 amGreat list and, some nice inspiring designs as well.
Thanks
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November 2nd, 2007 3:38 amPlease use Atom. Applications support both for now, but Atom is better defined and has a richer content payload.
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November 2nd, 2007 4:06 amI love the look of some of these…..Although the orb with the horizontal spiked lines I think deviates just a little to much.
Also i uploaded a zip file with a PSD, illustrator CS2 and illustratore file compliant with older versions of the icon, so it would be easier to customize without having to recreate it. You can find that here in case you would like to skip that step and jump right in.
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November 2nd, 2007 4:16 amI love the look of some of these…..Although the orb with the horizontal spiked lines I think deviates just a little to much.
Also i uploaded a zip file with a PSD, illustrator CS2 and illustratore file compliant with older versions of the icon, so it would be easier to customize without having to recreate it. You can find that here in case you would like to skip the creation step and jump right in.
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November 2nd, 2007 5:26 amIncredible selection of Icons, nice work!
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November 2nd, 2007 9:13 amBeing a new blogger, this is valuable information!! In our ongoing quest to attract more traffic and increase readership, this post on RSS icon placement and style will certainly help. Great job. I will probably try some of these icons on my site!
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November 2nd, 2007 1:25 pmFantastic resource. I personally use the circle feed icon for my blog. I am thinking about personalizing it more to attract more RSS subscribers though. It seems that once people find my blog they like to sign up, it just needs to be more prominent.
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November 2nd, 2007 4:14 pmNice resource list…once again.
I use a custom made one to attract subscribers. In fact, I’m a little offend that you didn’t feature it ;) (joke)
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November 2nd, 2007 5:26 pmNice icons gona use some one.
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November 2nd, 2007 5:33 pmA good roundup but there’s one thing missing – put a rel=”alternate” link in the so that nice browsers will place an icon in the address bar. I never hunt for an orange icon on the page any more, I just glance at the address bar.
Not sure if the comment system will cope with an example, but here goes:
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November 2nd, 2007 5:35 pmThe best icon I have ever seen:
http://www.papelcontinuo.net/wp-content/themes/test/images/rss-vision.gif
by http://www.papelcontinuo.net/
Awesome!
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November 2nd, 2007 6:05 pmWhat a nice intro picture. I want such an RSS pillow for Xmas. Then I can get my RSS notifications when I m sleeping…
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November 2nd, 2007 6:46 pmWanted to say the same thing – The RSS pillow looks awesome! A great Christmas gift for people whom have interest in the internet field. And great list of rss buttons!
Swift
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November 2nd, 2007 9:12 pmHi! Thanks for the link! BTW – This blog ripped off your post: http://www.zaesar.com/blog/?p=26
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November 3rd, 2007 1:55 amVery nice article, I’ll probably chomp up one of these to use on my website.
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November 3rd, 2007 5:36 amSo much things to still
Just Joking!!!
Good work!
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November 3rd, 2007 7:21 amAwesome article. I will be using a couple of the free icons on a few new websites.
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November 3rd, 2007 7:08 pmI just love useful lists, and it looks like you guys are the best in gathering useful information.
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November 4th, 2007 3:09 amMan…just THIS SECOND I was wondering if you guys had an article on RSS icons. Perfect timing!
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November 5th, 2007 1:34 pmOver at my blog I use a different style to show my rss off.
Its nice, big and different which hopefully will help interest people more…
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November 6th, 2007 10:41 pmVery nice icons. It’s good to see high quality graphic design.
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November 6th, 2007 11:49 pmIncredible collection! I love some of these icons, I’ve already downloaded many of them.
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November 7th, 2007 3:39 pmFantastic – thanks for gathering these lovelies together in one place. One of them will definitely go on my blog. Only trouble is, choosing which one could take some time…
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November 8th, 2007 3:56 pmGreat post! If you wondering where that “Real Live Button” came from, it was a prop for a short video we produced to help explain RSS. You watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4osqHYW1qyg
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November 11th, 2007 12:34 amA purely excellent article really is, this will great for future reference.
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November 13th, 2007 1:35 amGreat collection of rss icons! But where are the atom icons? :)
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November 20th, 2007 1:17 pmOK, now I can have my guitar pick as RSS icon. Thanks!
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January 9th, 2008 10:56 amAwesome designs!
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January 14th, 2008 5:21 amI like the post, great collection and search :) thanks for sharing.
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January 22nd, 2008 6:38 amBrilliant sorting… all in one place, sometimes like today needed the rss icon but in a different shape, and I found it in here, thanks a lot. Keep it up
Cheers
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January 22nd, 2008 4:08 pmGreat list.. Verry useful :-)
Thanks! - 35
February 7th, 2008 7:57 amGreat post. We were looking for some ideas to spice up our blog. The ideas here look amazing!
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March 8th, 2008 9:26 amNice selection. I made a few icons more recently so they never had a chance to make it in to this collection, but if anyone is after a few nice 80’s-neon style RSS logos… please see my blog, they’re free!
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March 13th, 2008 2:05 pmGreat icons!
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April 29th, 2008 9:27 amGreat, great, great !!!
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May 27th, 2008 3:54 amI want to put this on my web site http://ajoka.com can any one help me how i do????
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October 6th, 2008 12:00 pmNice! There are also some cool rss icons on http://www.freefeedicons.com and they have original PSD too so you can modify them.
~Nick
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October 13th, 2008 1:07 amGreat resource. There is a rss feed icon generator which could generate rss icons with different colors and sizes.
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December 14th, 2008 1:08 amgreat !! beautiful
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December 28th, 2008 2:08 pmThis is lovely. Will love to try puttting on my web http://www.echomusic.com.sg/. Thanks for sharing this info!
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June 11th, 2009 5:08 pmreally good post
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August 23rd, 2009 10:02 amThanks for this great stuff.
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September 17th, 2009 9:09 amI have a question I am hoping someone can answer…I work for a Bank and we are in the process of implementing RSS Business News Feeds. In many areas of our website we have links to third party sites. In addition to stating the fact that we have links to third party sites that have separate online privacy policy in the provacy and security section of our site, we also have a “speed bump” message when a customer clicks on one of the links to a third party site reiterating this. Now for my question, does anyone know if having a ’speed bump” letting a customer know they are leaving our site is “industry practice” when hosting RSS feeds to news articles…Seems like it would not be a great web experience. any info would be helpful! Best Regards
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September 25th, 2009 5:11 amDesigning unique RSS icons has become a bit of a competiton amongst designers, so I thought I’d give it a go, check out my unique RSS icons here: Free RSS Icons
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October 17th, 2009 11:45 amThanks for this excellent post, it’s very usefull, i’ll try to implement it to my blog
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great post…I was just working on the placement of a rss button today
-cheers