Favorite Online Web-Application
Ok, so here’s a quickie. My new favorite web application is this little favicon generator I found at http://www.htmlkit.com/services/favicon/. So here’s the back story:
One of the bosses came up to me last week and asked me about the little icons that show up in the title bar of Internet Explorer and next to each site in his bookmark list. He was browsing around and noticed them on other sites, but not on one of ours.
It took me a while to remember what these files were called, but a quick google search reminded me fairly quickly (I love how Google can do that!). So I explained the basics to him. Years ago I had helped a family member with this exact issue. At the time I had to download some icon-generator that would output the specific format that these Favicon files need (16×16 .ico format).
When we looked at trying to create one for our site, google helped out again. At http://www.htmlkit.com/services/favicon/ we found an easy converter that will take darn-near any image format or size and convert to this.ico format. Pretty slick! I didn’t have to download any software or try to figure out the file format or image parameters. This web-app gave us a preview of what the .ico file would look like and then let us download the compressed file. The whole process took about a minute.
The only thing I had to figure out was what do do with this favicon. Another quick search and we’re home. The trick is to keep the file named FAVICON.ICO and upload it to your website’s root directory. The browser does the rest. Want to see the site we were working on? Here it is: TopHat Tobacco.
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