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Ideally use a color opposite the dominant website color to ensure the action stands out.i.e.if the site is dominantly blue, a red or orange action color would work best. A variety of free social icon sets are available for download.
The next version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer will adopt Firefox's little orange RSS feed icon. That, effectively, is what will visually brand RSS feeds in consumers' minds. Chalk one up to the power of consumer and word-of-mouth marketing.
Look for the orange RSS icon at the bottom of result pages to take advantage of this feature. For shoppers, NexTag rolled out two features: A toolbar for Internet Explorer, which searches both product and travel offerings, and RSS feeds in all...
In other words, if I want to monitor news about Yahoo, I just search for yahoo, then subscribe using the orange RSS/XML box at the bottom right-hand side of the page. Even if you click through to view only blog search results, there's no RSS...
Back to the icon issue, I'm all for the orange XML icons that many have used. The fact is that you click on an orange XML button and the browser does the wrong thing," he writes. Let's Start With A Common Icon.
However, many sites use a small orange XML icon to link to the feed. I've also seen some sites use blue RSS icon. However, it also matches UserLand's latest RSS 2.0 version, as well, so we'll define the file as meeting that specification.
