Nov292007Easy Favicon Maker
Have you every wanted a favicon for your web site? (A favicon is the custom icon that appears in bookmarks, favorite lists, and the location bar of most Web browsers. On this site it’s a round circle with SM in it–yeah, I know it’s hard to read.)
Now you can take any PNG, JPEG or GIF file and have it converted automatically into a favicon thanks to GenFavicon, a site which lets you upload and crop an image. The site then converts the image into the proper .ico format. At that point you, upload the file (favicon.ico) to the root folder of your site and add <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”/favicon.ico” /> to the <head> area of your home page.
Couldn’t be simpler…and it’s free.
2 Responses to “Easy Favicon Maker”
Gerald Thulbourn December 13th, 2007 at 3:27 am
What a bizarre way of handling generating favicons! The program uploads your graphic to the screen then you drag a box over the area that you want to make into an icon, then it seems to ’snapshot it’ from there. Problems:
1. Doesn’t handle transparency (so white areas of your graphic will appear white - which means generally your favicon will appear in a white box.
2. Because you have to drag and size the box around to define the area that is the favicon (it doesn’t assume the size of the original file uploaded) you struggle to get the image at the right size/position.
If you have no access to graphics tools this might be an easy solution, otherwise try something like:
http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/
Zee November 30th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Awesome, thanks so much for posting! It took me all of 5 minutes to get it created and onto my site. Very cool, thanks for sharing. I’m bookmarking that puppy!