Mitchelaneous » favicon http://www.mitchelaneous.com geeky tutorials, tips, guides and reviews Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:22:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Favorite Favicon Generator http://www.mitchelaneous.com/2010/09/16/favicon-generator/ http://www.mitchelaneous.com/2010/09/16/favicon-generator/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:31:54 +0000 Mitch http://www.mitchelaneous.com/?p=4049

Favicons are an important part of any website these days.  They are your tiny 16 by 16 identifiers for your brand, your store, your blog or your business. If you are looking for a great tool to help you create the favicon you want to use – give favigen a shot.

On this website, you can browse your computer for any image:

Choose the image dimensions you want to use, in your next step.  Once you have done that, then hit the submit button.

Once you have done that, then you will be given a link where you can download your new favicon from to use on your own website.

Favigen is one of the nicest looking favicon creation tools I have seen in a long time.  Sure, it does not have a lot of bells and whistles, but if all you are doing is generating tiny images – do you really need a lot of bells and whistles?  Give it a shot for yourself over at favigen.com.

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  ]]> http://www.mitchelaneous.com/2010/09/16/favicon-generator/feed/ 2 Indiana Favicon and the Temple of Generators http://www.mitchelaneous.com/2008/11/13/indiana-favicon-and-the-temple-of-generators/ http://www.mitchelaneous.com/2008/11/13/indiana-favicon-and-the-temple-of-generators/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:36:00 +0000 Mitch http://www.mitchelaneous.com/2008/11/13/indiana-favicon-and-the-temple-of-generators/ What is a favicon?  It is that tiny icon you see in most modern browsers, right next to your web address. 

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Think of it as a visual reminder for the browser of what site you are on.  This is really handy when it comes to favicons in tabs, because you can quickly see and think “Oh, there is an ‘m’ there, and it looks like Mitch’s layout – that tab must be where I loaded Mitchelaneous.com”.

Favicon creation is not that hard, as long as you have a good graphic editing program.  What you need to remember is keep it 16×16 pixels and name it favicon.ico. Also it will need to be in the root folder for the domain in question – so for example on most Linux-based/cPanel hosting plans for your primary domain name that would be your public_html folder. If it is located somewhere else you can specify a location with these strings in between your <head> and </head> code on your web page:

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="/favicon.ico" />

Going back to the favicon creation, there are several good resource online to help you get this done quickly and easily.  Here are some of my favorite favicon generators:

There you can quickly create, edit and download your own personal favicon to use.  It cuts some of the work out of the overall chore of getting your favicon ready for public consumption. 

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  ]]> http://www.mitchelaneous.com/2008/11/13/indiana-favicon-and-the-temple-of-generators/feed/ 0 8 Favorite Online Favicon Generators http://www.mitchelaneous.com/2007/06/02/8-favorite-online-favicon-generators/ http://www.mitchelaneous.com/2007/06/02/8-favorite-online-favicon-generators/#comments Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:00:20 +0000 Mitch http://64.38.8.130/~mitchela/?p=1119 Favicon GeneratorsWhat is a favicon? It is that little icon that appears next to your URL in the browser of your choice. This helps you identify the Web site quicker – and also with some browsers, allows you to have an easier time finding specific links in your bookmarks.

How can you make one? Well here are 8 of my favorite free tools for creating the favicon of your dreams:

+ FavIcon from Pics

+ Dynamic Drive’s FavIcon Generator

+ Favicon Generator and Gallery

+ Anti FavIcon

+ FaviconGenerator.com

+ Favicon Editor

+ Favicon Drawing Program

+ Graphics Guru Favicon Generator

Have another favicon creator that I might have missed? Leave a comment and let us all know about the one you love or hate.

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