I finally got sick of seeing a blank little icon in my URL bar every time I visit my own site (neumannhaus.com, you know, where you're at right now!) With a little gimp and a nice font, volia! a favicon was born. It was pretty easy to create. I worked with a 64x64 canvas and then scaled it down to 16x16 at the very end. It's nice that gimp allows you to save directly into the windows icon format, apparently it didn't used to.
One caveat, if you have more than one layer when you save the icon, they will each be stored as separate icons in one icon file. I was a bit confused for a minute when I was viewing my icon in Firefox and all I saw was white. Apparently the white "background" layer was saved as a "white" icon and the black "N" was saved as another icon--all inside one icon file. Firefox defaulted to the first icon it found--the white one!
So know you can ooh and awe at the big "N" in your URL bar.
Posted by enigma at September 1, 2006 10:54 AMI noticed immediately. ;o) Very nice.
Posted by: Marilyn at September 1, 2006 11:40 AM