How to Make: A Favicon
Posted in Tipster Tuesday and tagged with Free, How to, Internet, Pictures, Technology on 06/02/2009 03:44 pm by lori
If you use Firefox or an updated version of Internet Explorer, you might notice a little icon in the address bar, to the left of http:// . . . . These are called favicons.
Gmail’s favicon is an M over an envelope, Craiglist’s favicon is a peace sign, Ebay’s favicon is “ebay”. If a website has not customized a favicon, the icon looks like a blank page (see blue arrow in above image). Boring. I noticed these favicons a few months ago and decided I wanted one. So, I chose a Gerber Daisy (see red arrow in above picture). They’re my favorite. Hint hint.
Anyway, if you don’t have a favicon yet, here’s how you can get one . . .
- favicon.cc- On this site, you can “paint” your own favicon (16 x 16 pixels). You can upload an image, use animation, adjust the color, or paint it.
- FavIcon from Pics- On this site, you can upload any image, and the site will make your favicon to the right size. You can animate it or add color or words.
- favicon generator- This site gives you a cleaner looking image because you must upload an image that is the correct size (100 x 100 pixels). So, you can only use this site if you can scale an image to be 100 pixels square on your own. I chose to use this site. I made the image with Microsoft Picture It, but I’m sure that any photo editing software you have can also resize an image to the correct proportions.
Did you use another site to make a favicon? Are you going to make one now? Let me know if you have questions.
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June 2nd, 2009 at 7:58 pm
sounds so fun. I tried it but I can’t get paste the step on the last site that says: simply upload favicon.ico to your root directory.
uh huh? simply?!! if i even knew what a root directory was! Plus I don’t think I can do it on blogger since they already have a favicon. oh well
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June 2nd, 2009 at 10:54 pm
@Jeanette - Your root directory is the main folder that holds all your WordPress files. I’m guessing that since you use blogger and don’t host your own blog installation that you might not be able to use a favicon
However, I’m not 100% familiar with blogger so there may be some way to do that I don’t know about.
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Jeanette- I did some searching for you, and I found this link for how to make a favicon for blogger: http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2008/04/favicons-made-easy.html . Hope you can figure it out now. Good luck. If any of the lingo is confusing, come back here and ask, cause my husband Jonathan is a programmer, and he could help you out!
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