favicon.ico
I love favicons. I kind of like squinting at the screen while I create them as well. I used to use a photoshop plugin that allowed you to save in .ico format. But now I use this online tool which is even easier and seems to do a better job of it. The one you can see in the address bar was created with this tool, at least the last part. The thing is, I’m not a big fan of Photoshop. I use it when I need to but much prefer Fireworks for any kind of graphics work, just because I know it better.
Here’s the link – favicon generator
You have to add a bit of code as well if you want it to work in internet explorer for windows. But in the mac browsers it just works. I mean as long as you put your favicon.ico file in the root folder for your site. Oh yeah, that bit of code goes like this:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
It goes without saying that it needs to go in the head section and you only need that last forward slash if you are using xhtml. And yes, you do need to name that file favicon.ico. But the generator will do that for you.