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“What are those orange icons?”

Feeds, and more commonly RSS and Atom, are used at blogs, news sites and just about any website that has got frequently updated content. They are usually shown at the home page or through out the website as an orange icon. It lets the users or visitors of the site know about the udpates to the site without actually visiting the site. In some cases, the full content and not just the summary is provided through these Feeds.

Splat and WiseTome too has these feed icons, that lets you subscribe to the feeds using a Feed Reader of your choice. Splat and WiseTome provides RSS feeds.

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It was sometime back when I was writing a tutorial to create crystal orbs at KalaaLog, that I realized the same technique can be extended to other elements - one of them being buttons that can be used in web design.

In this tutorial we will go through some simple (and few advanced) steps that would let you create a button for web pages with a crystal or glassy look to it.

I have used Inkscape myself, but I will try to be as generic as possible so that you may reproduce the results in other graphics utilities like PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, or Corel Photo Paint.

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