Free Animated RSS Feeds Icon
Posted in Blog Tips, How To | By AhTim @ February 17th, 2008
Today when I read through my daily feed, found an interesting post by Hongkiat. Thanks him for posted a list of free yet beautiful RSS feeds icons. After browse through the free icons, I decided to customized one of the static RSS icon to animated icon.
From dozens of free RSS icons, I have choosen the icon named “MyCircles” as my new RSS feeds icon. I download the original PNG image file then custommized it to animated version.
How to Customize RSS Feeds Icons?
I used Paint.Net, a free yet professional image editing tool to generate the raw images for animation one by one. At first, I copy and paste 3 same image file with same size. Secondly, I remove off the signal bars from the icons. One with no signal bar (as base image), another one with a signal bar. So my animated RSS feed icon was build using these 3 images below.
After save these 3 images into PNG image files, now is time to make it animated. I used Picasion as my free animation GIF generator online tool. Goto Picasion home page, browse and select to upload the 3 images. Select appropiate size and speed to suit your style. Click on “create animation” and the animated GIF image will be generate on the go!
You may download the GIF image into computer for your own use. If not you can link to the GIF url provided by Picasion to save some disk space and hassle.
Now, you can use this animated RSS icons for your website for Free! Right click on the icon and save it for your own use. And do not forget to link back this post to show your appreciation to me! 
[via HongKiat, burnsflipper]
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February 19th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I was expecting the filesize to be bigger than 11k. It’s important to keep filesize down for fast load times and usually animated graphics don’t help but these are well done.
Nice work.
February 20th, 2008 at 11:48 am
@Popular Wealth: Can’t avoid larger size with its pixels and glossy effect. It just work fine for my blog loading time. Is it too slow for you?
November 12th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Thanks! I like the link to the animated gif creator. Good work!
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
The one you have hear is too loud.
I am looking for one that just shimmers slightly at regular intervals
March 18th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Nice animated icon. Downloading now! wonder how it will look at my site?