Best Design Practices of RSS and Free icon sets collection
Apr 21, 2008 
RSS, Really Simple Syndication, is a very simple but powerful tool used on websites. Mostly used on blogs this tool allows the readers to subscribe to the website and stay updated with the recent updates. Aside from having good content for your users to subscribe, sometimes Rss design and placement also comes in handy to increase your subscriber count.
In this post I will be sharing tons of free icons sets for rss as well as examples of best feed placement. Note: These icons does not belong to Balkhis therefore before abusing using it make sure you read the guidelines provided by the designer.
Let me put the general guidelines for the use of these icons:
Do not take the credit away from the designers.
Do not sell these icons
Stick with personal use unless commercial use is allowed by the designers
Ultimate goal of bloggers
The ultimate goal of bloggers is to have a large loyal reader base which they keep track by using RSS Feeds through feedburner and track the count of their subscribers. Many things decide whether your user would subscribe to your website or not. One of the things are the right placement for the RSS Buttons, and how well you embed it on the website.
Best Placement and Practices of RSS Designs
Best Placement of RSS Designs are mostly toward the very top. Making your reader scroll to find the RSS is one of the mistakes many bloggers make. The more creative the RSS Button looks, the more it will impress the users and will lead them to subscribe.
Below are some of the best / creative examples of RSS
You can see this icon at the top of this page. This style embeds with the design and looks natural.
This was one of the most unique rss symbols I have seen. Very nicely done, and It is animated.
This is another example of how simple an RSS Design can look yet blend in and still look good.
Very cool background for the rss. Unique !!!
Smashing magazine has always put up great resources on the web for web designers. There icon is one of the coolest.
Now that you have seen some of the unique and good looking RSS Buttons, let me present to you the bunch of free collection of icon sets. Please note that the Icons I am about to present has been featured on Smashing Magazine on multiple posts, and I am just putting it all together for myself and my readers.
Here are bunch of rss feed icons that you can just copy from the image below
Now time for the best ones that were released by Fast Icons on Smashing Magazine
Thats all of the freebies that I really liked on Smashing Magazine. I hope you guys use these services wisely and not abuse it.
Remember to put your feed icons toward the top of your site/blog to increase the subscriber count.
I was just trying to figure this out yesterday and here itis all laid out for me. Great post!
Thats really a huge list man. Great collection..
hehe thanks chetan … it took me quiet sometime to make this list.
Cool collection out here Syed …
This one is very much unique :- zachbraff.com
how about something like this animated one on balkhis too :p
yea that one is very good… Nah I like static pages more
I love the anime one on zachbraff.com
Looks really neat and catches your attention too!
They have some good ones too, i personally like they’re blogger icons.
Really nice link there Puneet. I like the animated ones but they take longer to load and increases page load time so yeah, just depends!
WOW! That is one heck of collection!I’ve been using the one my smashing magazine for a while now but it is getting very common!
yes it is … I try to make unique ones .. but ideas aren’t easy to come you know.
And syed my freind you also have a great collection, i like your smashing icons.
I really love these icons here. I will definitely be implementing some of these in my new theme. Thanks!