If you want to inform your websites’ visitor that there are more information to be displayed or still to be loaded on your page, you may need a “loading” or “wait” icon, or I simply called it a preloader image. An Ajax loading icon is also most commonly used on AJAX-base sites and applications. However, not all of us have the skills to design and create such icons. Here, we present to you online tools that will generate an AJAX loading icons and some sites which have a collection of it that are ready for download.
Preloaders.net
Preloaders.net has a nice categorized collection of GIF preloaders. You can set your preloaders’ background (transparent is also available) and foreground color, size with contrains proportion option and it’s animation speed.
Ajaxload
Ajaxload.info is still in Beta and the only option for it’s loading icon that you can set is it’s background and foreground color.
Load Info
LoadInfo.net options for it’s loading icon are background and foreground color and three predefined sizes which are 16×16, 24×24 and 48×48.
Web Script Lab
Web Script Lab’s Ajax Loading GIF Generator options for it’s loading icon are background and foreground color and three predefined speed which are normal, fast and slow.
Chimply
Chimply is in Beta stage but it has also a nice collection of categorized Ajax loading icons. Common settings include background and foreground colors and it’s width. Many advanced options will appear depending on what type of preloader you are going to select.
mentalized Activity Indicators
SanBaldo Ajax Loading Animated GIF
If this post have missed any AJAX loading icon generators, please feel free to add them in the comment below.
26 Responses to “7 AJAX Loading Icon Generators”
Great list. Thanks you very much !
Nice post, I hadn’t heard of a couple of these.
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Thanks, bookmarked
Any idea of a collection of similar graphics in some vector format (like to use in flash)?
Hi, great post…
can you tell me a site where can I see how apply this to my site?
thanks.
Chimply has an option to download the SWF file of the icon.
There are many uses to mention. For example in an Ajax contact form, you can show a loading icon while your visitor is sending you a message. Another common example of using the loading icons is on image galleries with zooming functions using Lightbox. Let’s say you have thumbnails of your images, when a user click on the thumbnail to zoom, you can show a loading icon while the big image is still to be loaded.
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Thanks for this post, it’s very useful.
Nice… The first one is the best
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Very nice list, thanks.
I really like the preloaders website. I had been using ajaxload till I found this site.
Keep up the good work!
muy buenos ..
Hi NetWaver,
Could you tell me how can I download the SWF file of the icon…??
Thanks,
Amit.
Is the ‘.gif’ image not work in IE?
Nice generators, love it.
AWESOME
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very nice thanks
Bookmarked. Thanks for sharing the sites.
Dear users of http://preloaders.net!
We would like to inform you that Preloaders.net has new upgrades. We have improved the preloader generating form in terms of usability. Also from now on you can set a reverse animation for the preloaders. Please check out the web-site to see the difference
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