Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004, 8:44 am
Creating favicon.ico
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This morning I worked on enriching the quality of my sites’ icons. For those with no experience in this area, the problem under consideration is generation of a 16×16 pixel bitmap of one particular form. Since there are Window$-related requirements, I once used Visual Studio to do this task. I have just read about two alternatives:
- Irfanview which is light-weight and free.
- An on-line tool which has thus far not worked for me.
Once the icon is ready, it should be uploaded to root level ('/' or top-level directory for Window$ hosting) and the metatag
<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/favicon.ico">
added to the relevant HTML files.
December 29th, 2004 at 5:16 am
For you mac-heads out there, you can use Graphic Converter to convert the picture to .ico format.