While building apps that utilize ajax calls, one of the last steps that I do is finding a little loading graphic that will work with the site’s color pallet. This is the little spinning circle, or blinking dots, or moving bar that looks neat while the content is loading. Sometimes it’s hard to find the perfect one that doesn’t have a bunch of gif noise (all that anti-aliasing edge color) and they end up looking cheap or gross. Well, yesterday I found an awesome tool.

Ajaxload.info is a site where you can choose a loading graphic, enter your sites background color (or choose transparent) the loader foreground color, and press generate. This site will take those parameters, and spit out an animated gif with the correct colors and animation. AMAZING! The images that the site generates are totally free to use, however and wherever, and are compressed well to be web-friendly. This is a great tool that saves a ton of time, as animating gifs is one of the most tedious things in web development.

Thanks Ajaxload.info!