Dynamic Drive- FavIcon Generator. Use this online tool to easily create a favicon (favorites icon) for your site. A favicon is a small, 16x16 image that is shown inside the browser's location bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up. It is a good way to brand your site and increase it's prominence in your visitor's bookmark menu. More information on favicon After you've created a neat favicon, it's time to add it to your site.
Upload the generated file ("favicon.ico") to your site. Also see- Favicon Editor Also check out our Favicon Editor to create the 16x16 icon image from scratch! Creating Favorite Icons with a Transparent Background Using Photoshop : Lobo Links Blog. December 17th, 2007 If you haven’t noticed or cleared your Internet cache in a while, I have been working on some new logo concepts for the site. Anyway, after doing so I had to change the favorite icon too. I set out on my journey to find the perfect tutorial for creating favorite icons with transparent backgrounds.
I tried a few different tricks and none of them worked flawless like I wanted. So I kept doing some research and testing until I found a method that was easy enough to explain to anyone. Most of this tutorial is based on Windows XP and Adobe Photoshop CS2 illustrations, but you can use the menu through most of it if your on a Mac. The ICO File Format Plugin for Photoshop This is the secret behind the whole bit. Download Icon File Format Plugin for Windows or Mac Once downloaded, Add ICOFormat.8bi to your Photoshop File Formats directory.
[html]C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Plug-Ins\File Formats[/html] Be sure to restart Photoshop so the plugin can load The Image. Photo Matt » How To Create A Favicon. I’m going to make a confession: I can’t stand favicons. To clarify, I love the idea and the little icons on my Mozilla tabs are nifty, but I hate having to make them. This is partially due to working within the constraints of 16 by 16 pixels, but more so that until now I haven’t found a good way to generate said icons on Windows. I was jealous as a whip (can a whip be jealous?) When Noel posted instructions detailing how to do it on a Mac. At this point someone is probably wondering what in the world a favicon is. Another good reason to have a favicon.ico in the root of your site is some browsers request that file whether it is linked in your HTML or not, so if there’s nothing there it fills up your error logs.
So what’s the trick to creating lightweight multi-size favicons? Download png2ico, which is a small, free utility for Windows, Linux, et cetera that works quite well. Update: Ian has found my favicon twin. Update 2: Oskar van Rijswijk recommends IrfanView in the comments. Favourite Favicons | Delta Tango Bravo. Favourite Favicons | Delta Tango Bravo.