I just dropped in on the new Seed Magazine site after reading about its redesign on Zeldman’s site. After looking around a little I decided that I’d like to subscribe to its feed so as to keep up with what they publish. But try as I may, I couldn’t find that famous feed icon, or a variation thereof. There’s a reason why standard icons exist, so that people can recognize something like a feed icon on whichever site they may be visiting. It doesn’t help anyone to ditch the icon and go with eight point text instead. Well, unless you really aren’t looking to attract readers.★
Or, you know, you could click on the feed icon that’s probably sitting in your address box. (but point taken.)
Jonathan: I use Chrome, no icon in the address bar :-)
what kind of bass ackwards browser you usin’?! Gah!
Good point. I sort of figured that everyone would be using the auto-detect feature like in Firefox these days. But after reading this, I put the feed icon back on my blog in a better position (ie. no longer buried under pages, categories and etc…
Luke: Wow, in all my years of blogging, finally tangible proof that I actually influenced someone! ;-)