Ajax activity indicators
If you work with Ajax, you often have to show the user that something is going on. http://mentalized.net/activity-indicators/ provides some nice animated GIFs in the public domain for doing that. I am sure I will use them in the future.
Ajax Activity Indicators
One of the major complaints that users have about Ajax interfaces is that they have no idea when things are happening in the background. If some important background activity is going to be happening, something that the user needs to wait for, a deve…
http://www.sanbaldo.com/wordpress/1/ajax_gif/
Here are also some great animations :
http://ajaxload.info
I use the site all the time for my projects.
@Antonie: Thanks for the link to this practical site!