FavIcon creation
I installed dasBlog at Emma's
The Wheel site, so that she and the other
knitters in Team Ireland can
blog during the 2006 Knitting Olympics.
What an ordeal that was! But that's a post for another time.
(It's not working yet, due to permissions issues that require
the intervention of support at our
hosting site.)
I decided today to create a favicon for The Wheel, based on the logo
that I drew last year with Inkscape.
A favicon is a 16x16 icon which shows up in the tab in a tabbed browser,
such as FireFox or IE with MSN Search. For example, the little gvr
icon that shows up if you're reading this on my
personal blog.
I think I created this with a trial copy of Microangelo Creation,
but I've repaved my laptop since then, so I'm not sure.
Initially, I drew the favicon by hand with the icon editor in Visual
Studio, since it was the only tool that I had handy at work. It looked like
crap.
This evening, I remembered about the automated
FavIcon from Pics
service over at HTML-Kit. I stripped
the wording off the logo and submitted that. Much better!
And much easier than using Visual Studio's horrible icon editor.
If you look at it with
Magnifixer,
you can see that this image has effectively been heavily anti-aliased.
Or rather, FavIcon from Pics did a good job of shrinking the original
image.
I had to flush Firefox's cache before it would pick up the new favicon,
whereas IE picked it up after Ctrl+F5. Score one to IE.
