Over-sized RSS Buttons: Fail.
– May 6th, 2008Things that are bizarrely out of proportion give me the weebie-jeebies[1]. As a kid, weird images would pop into my head as I was drifting off to sleep, like a massively over-sized tire, and I’d go all weebie-jeebie. Usually I could counteract this by shifting position – laying with my face on the pillow and my butt in the air – which generally normalized size and stopped the spin. I’m drawn to Salvador Dali’s ‘The Elephants’ because it induces a very similar effect, and also euphoria, making me secretly want to own a copy so I can careen by it in bliss.
But I digress.
I am writing this not out of a need to validate my phobias, but in an attempt to derail a current web trend in the form of OBNOXIOUSLY LARGE feed buttons. I’m talking the 128 x 128 sized behemoths, stuck on the page like a discarded dinosaur lozenge. Please stop doing this; your pages make me sick and I can’t surf the ‘net with my butt in the air. This isn’t McDonalds, we aren’t supersizing our feeds, and I don’t care what Fitt’s law[2] states, you should keep your rss feed buttons to a reasonable size. Please.
{ fin }
- Weebie-jeebies is, as it sounds, a slight variation on ‘heebie jeebies’ but with the nuance of wobbliness and vertigo. [↩]
- If we want to carry that one to it’s logical conclusion, just start throwing this bad boy on your site. [↩]
pnts 
i wholeheartedly agree. i’ve been shopping around for wp themes, and saw a couple with that massive rss button. wtf?!