News feed button icons

The Web Feed Generator creates news feed button links to copy-and-paste into your Web page to help people find your news feeds. This page includes reference articles on news feed icons and links to Web sites where you can download or create alternative RSS button icons for your news feed.

Web Feed Reference

Our main screen shots page introduces the use of distinctive button icons to identify RSS news feeds.

The Web Feed Generator automatically generates standard news feed buttons when you create a news feed.

The Web Feed Reference article How do I add an auto-discovery link? explains how to create copy-and-paste news feed buttons too.

External links

These links discuss the use of common news feed icons in Web browsers and point to several sources of alternative news feed button icons. Some items use technical jargon that may be unfamiliar; see our Web Feed Reference glossary for plain English explanations.

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• On 14 December 2005, the Microsoft Team RSS Blog announced that Internet Explorer 7 would use the same orange icon as Mozilla Firefox to highlight news feed auto-discovery links: Icons: It's still orange
• Matt Brett's Feed Icons site promotes the use of the Firefox feed icon by distributing it in a variety of image formats and sizes.
• The Automatic RSS Feed Button Maker creates a set of easy subscription buttons for 10 of the most popular feed readers, with options for many more.
• Adam Kalsey's Button Maker will generate an infinite number of variations on a standard two tone news feed button.
• Jeremy Hedley has posted a set of alternative RSS news feed buttons, with a directive to Steal These Buttons.
• Eric Meyer combines two themes and invites visitors to Steal These Buttons, Too, again using Cascading Style Sheets.

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