creating a favicon

[rhs]

hi everyone,

I had done it quite sometime back, and it was from a website I donot remember now. One had to create it online and the file was later sent in your email account.

Its basically a 16x16px or 24x24px image with a file extn .ico

Does anyone know of any graphics/image editing program capable of doing that?

If its' free , even better

Regards



RHS

[ionsurge]

You may have used www.favicon.com to create your icon.

www.icon-creator.net has a nifty app that you could use to create an icon.

[soccerdvy]

Windows Paint can do it, just save it as type "All Files" with the extension filename.ico

[rhs]

thanks pals,

I am looking for a free utility/program, and I use a MAC,

anybody?


Regards

[MotherNatrsSon]

What OS are you using? I did a google and came up with a couple for OS X.

I searched fro "Mac Icon maker free"

MNS

[rhs]

Hi again,

Sorry i forgot to mention the OS, yes its OSX (which comes with classic too OS 9.2)
I too am trying the search.

thanks for your help


RHS

[Len Whistler]

Is a favicon even supported by the browsers?

I know IE 5 did, but I don't think IE 5.5 or above supports the favicon. I have one for my site at www.stubby.ca and it doesn't show up.

Leonard Whistler
www.stubby.ca

[ionsurge]

I don't see any code for a favicon on that page... :confused:

<link rel="icon" href="path/favicon.ico" type="image/bmp" />

That is the code to have a favicon...

[MotherNatrsSon]

I see a little black "S" with a brown background for a favicon in Netscape 7 on a MAC even though the code is not there...:confused:

MNS

[whackaxe]

i think you can do that with the apaceh htacces file as well no?

[bradyj]

Iconographer is a shareware favicon maker for Mac OS 9.2.2-- don't know the website anymore, but here are some links:

http://mscape.com/favicontutorial/index.html
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/01/18/index1a_page6.html?tw=design

[Len Whistler]

Thanks ionsurge and MotherNatrsSon. I will update the code on my site so that the favicon shows up.

Also I believe that with IE 5 that all you had to do was put the favicon.ico file in the same directory as the index page and it would show up without any code in the index page.

[rhs]

Hi everybody,

thanks for your responses.

bradyj, thanks for the links I have downloaded the two versions, will tryout and let all of you know.

As for browsers supporting the favicon on Mac, I think we should take into account that many visitors/websurfers use PCs, also I am told that the new Mozilla 9.0 supports favicons. Those who have a browser with favicon support will see them others will not!!

thanks anyway to all of you.

more replies welcome
:)
RHS

[bradyj]

Mac IE does not support the Favicon -- All the Moz builds do.

and...
Also I believe that with IE 5 that all you had to do was put the favicon.ico file in the same directory as the index page and it would show up without any code in the index page.

I thought this was true as well, however, the browser had problems finding the Favicon on occassion so I had to put the link in there to make sure it picked it up as so:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />

[rhs]

Hi bradyj,
you and ionsurge are right, the link in the code is an absolute must. (But still at times it does not show up)

RHS

[bradyj]

I know it takes a while for it to kick in -- I loaded it on a couple different computers and it worked -- and, still, sometimes, it doesn't save with their favorites. It is not a universally used design technique (as it is not a necessity), so I imagine it has little support across browsers in the end.

[rhs]

Hi friends,

The Iconographer is a nice icon maker. thanks.

My question now is :

I have made two favicons for the same website, one for the windows(*.ico ) platform and the other for Mac(*.icns). Is it possible to make two rel links to the icons so that they show up on the respective platforms.

thanks

RHS

[whackaxe]

detect the platform with javascript and print the out put accordingly. there are loads of platform detection scripts you can paly about with all over te place, orm ake your own

[bradyj]

On my mac, the .ico works just fine -- i wouldn't worry about the .icns -- All the browsers for mac (that use a favicon) will pick up the .ico -- spending your time targeting browsers will be wasted from what I know of this.

Someone else may know for sure, but of all the browsers I have on OS 9 and OS X show the .ico just fine :thumbsup: