Comments on: Over-sized RSS Buttons: Fail.

By: Hen

Hen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:19:12 +0000

Your definitely right .
If someone will want to use rss in your site , he will do it without press “big” button .

P.S. : Please press my name and help me [ENTER the WEBSITE]

By: Dave Fish

Dave Fish — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:24:49 +0000

I love your typographic touch. Thanks!

By: pnts

pnts — Sun, 18 May 2008 02:14:38 +0000

Pat, that’s a good point. The RSS button from your old design is huge, but next the very large text, it doesn’t feel wrong or out of balance. However, many of the buttons I see are swimming in the middle of 12px fonts and it just tips the balance too far. And then the weebie jeebies start.

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:12:04 +0000

If you take a look at the article “45 More Excellent Blog Designs” on SmashingMagazine.com (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/20/45-more-excellent-blog-designs/) you will see an image of my old blog design.

The icon was 200px x 231px.

My icon was part of the design (albeit not very well integrated into the design). I think the idea of constraining the RSS icon (or any design feature) to a certain size should be dictated by the design, not by trends or by a set standard.

I agree, however, that designers need to stop sticking them “on the page like a discarded dinosaur lozenge.”

Pat

By: pnts

pnts — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:22:08 +0000

Chris-

I wasn’t trying to pick on you specifically… I didn’t even realize you had the 128 x 128 image on your site. I get your updates by RSS, ironically enough. Good for you though, stand by your image (starts humming the tune to ‘Stand By Your Man’). I’ll keep reading through NetNewsWire…

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:09:02 +0000

There are only two images on my sidebar. A duck and a rss button. I felt being proportional would be out of sync because my other image isn’t really serving a purpose. I know its big. And it is following a trend, but not being in a trend is a trend in itself; especially when it comes to WordPress. Everyone wants to be different.
Perhaps in my next tweak, I’ll change it. If I’m drunk enough to remember, but I stand by my single serving image.

By: pnts

pnts — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:12:55 +0000

I think WP themes might be the main source of the trend atm. I’ve seen an inordinate number sporting the things when perusing galleries…

By: bunnyhero

bunnyhero — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:59:56 +0000

i wholeheartedly agree. i’ve been shopping around for wp themes, and saw a couple with that massive rss button. wtf?!