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

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Post October 17th, 2010, 9:27 am

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I use a program called Microangelo. I've used it for years. I don't think it's free, but it allows you to embed many icons into one. 16x16, 32x32, 256 color, millions of colors, etc.

It comes with a cursor studio, so you make animated cursors etc. as well as some other stuff. I believe there is a demo version, and if you don't mind forking over a few bucks (I think I paid $25 for it years ago) it's really good stuff.


Microangelo is a great program for making icons, I've used it a lot.
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Post October 17th, 2010, 9:27 am

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Post April 15th, 2011, 2:35 am

i have not looked over the 5 pages of posts but you don't have to use *.ico files for this you can use gif too

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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="../images/brwser_icon.gif">


This is what i used for one of my recent sites that i have been building and it works fine in Firefox
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Post March 17th, 2012, 11:54 pm

i use jpg and it works for Opera and Moz.
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Post July 13th, 2012, 7:16 pm

thanks for the information and links shared in this thread, im gonna try this favicon creator sites.
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Post July 25th, 2012, 3:13 pm

Why not create your own favicon in photoshop and the upload it? That's how I'm doing it...
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Post July 31st, 2012, 3:44 am

If you create your own favicon in photoshop keep you as. gif... It is better and more compatible than the jpg.
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Post October 15th, 2012, 9:47 pm

thanx for sharing
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Post October 17th, 2012, 4:12 am

I had this problem in IE. I try to add the link or meta tags but didn't work, so I started to look at the format of the icon file.
It appeared to be a valid icon file (not just a renamed image), but what fixed it in the end was to convert it to an image, save it as a GIF, and then converting it back to an icon.
Also make sure to clear the IE cache while you're testing.
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Post October 20th, 2012, 2:11 am

Thanks for the nice tips about favicon.. This is very helpful for me..
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Post April 25th, 2013, 2:55 am

Inter_kontinental wrote:
If you create your own favicon in photoshop keep you as. gif... It is better and more compatible than the jpg.


Use a png file, because it looks better if it's transparent.
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Post May 8th, 2013, 9:35 am

this my site I want to chage my favicon, please support me, thanks

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