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Design tip -- Favicons - that small icon in the address bar.

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Post December 18th, 2008, 8:06 pm

ayelletkod wrote:
A long time ago i have read an article explaining why that happens - why fabicons disappear from favorites list, leaving behind them a regular 'e' logo :(
It was such a silly reason, nothing to do with downloading programs to fix it.

But theres no chance i can recall where or even when i read it.


I think you can find it previously in this post. Roughly the 1st or 2nd page.
"There's no place like 127.0.0.1 except for ::1."
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Post December 18th, 2008, 8:06 pm

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Post February 21st, 2009, 6:57 pm

wow, I'm impressed - a 4-year long thread!

http://iconfu.com will convert between .gif, .png and .ico images (there's an upload link at the top of the page) ... it's free for icons up to 24x24px

it does much else besides but that's a story for another day
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Post March 12th, 2009, 8:05 am

Best .ico (desktop or favicon) editor, IMO: IcoFX http://icofx.ro/ or for screenshots http://icofx.ro/screenshots.html . Better than some paid apps. I'm actually surprised this thing is free. I use it all the time though.
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Post May 2nd, 2009, 7:47 am

Favicons are needed to help your brand. I believe some browsers don't use favicons though.
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Post June 10th, 2009, 8:14 am

I use Format Factory (http://www.formatoz.com/) or Favicon.cc for an easy in-browser creation. (http://www.favicon.cc/)
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Post August 6th, 2009, 5:08 am

hi
thanks for sharing this info..
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Post August 15th, 2009, 8:18 am

I love favicons... :)

It helps add a modicum of branding to the sites in our network.

I use the one at dynamic drive:
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

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Post August 15th, 2009, 8:55 am

Here is the way I add an icon image.
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<link rel="icon" href="ICON IMAGE SOURCE" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="ICON IMAGE SOURCE" type="image/x-icon" />
 
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  2. <link rel="icon" href="ICON IMAGE SOURCE" type="image/x-icon" />
  3. <link rel="shortcut icon" href="ICON IMAGE SOURCE" type="image/x-icon" />
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Post October 26th, 2009, 8:23 pm

Thanks for that post.
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Post November 30th, 2009, 11:29 pm

rjmthezonenet wrote:
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The hard part is finding a good proggy that will convert your image files to an ico file.


I came across a web page last week that suggested that other graphics formats were supported. Sorry I don't have a link... on dial-up tonight. :oops:


Nice information
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Post December 26th, 2009, 3:52 am

I use photoshop to make the .ico files but in some case you must first install a photoshop addon (it was required to me).
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Post February 17th, 2010, 8:53 pm

Thanks for the tips. Favicon has indirect benefit in terms of SEO because it help visitors to recognize your site through the icon which shows up in the tab and it help somewhat in branding your logo.
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Post July 2nd, 2010, 1:51 am

For creating online flash website wht we have to do?
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Post July 6th, 2010, 12:46 pm

Flash site would be no different than any other site. You'd make the favicon exactly as described in the posts in this thread.
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Post September 21st, 2010, 8:20 am

hello everyone im nuesha newbie here. i use jpg and it works for Opera and Moz. thanks!
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