Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

Crafting Web sites since 1999

I am a Web designer passionate about creating elegant, inspiring, and usable Web experiences that connect with an audience and fulfull business objectives.

Favorite Icons

April 6, 2005

Design (Web)

I am sure you have seen the lit­tle icons in the address bar of web­sites. I have cre­ated some in the past for my web­sites but they did not look very good. I decided to take another crack at it and have cre­ated some for God­Squad and campuscrusadeforchrist.com. I found some arti­cles and other resources on cre­at­ing these “fav­i­cons.” I even found a site where you browse to an image file on your com­puter and the site will gen­er­ate a fav­i­con. You then down­load a zip file with it and put the icon in the root folder of your site. Pretty simple.

  • Fav­i­con from picts — fav­i­con gen­er­a­tor that I men­tioned above
  • Cre­at­ing a fav­i­con in Pho­to­shop — Runs through how to down­load the plu­gin you will need to save as an “.ico” file. Then the tuto­r­ial runs you through the process and gives some tips at cre­at­ing a good fav­i­con. I have cus­tomized my desk­top by cre­at­ing .ico with Photoshop.
  • I did a Google search and found sev­eral resources out there.

I did find that you have to empty the cache on your browser and clean out tem­po­rary files to have the fav­i­con show up. I also learned that in Fire­fox you have to dou­ble click the “paper” icon in front of your link to get it to update the fav­i­con from the default “page” icon.

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