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20060501 Monday May 01, 2006

Favorite LifeHacker Links - May 2005

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( May 01 2006, 06:20:52 PM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Creating my own Favicon for my Blog

Using the Lifehacker link from 2nd February 2005, I went to the FavIcon from Pics site, and gave it a pointer to a copy of the Sun logo. It generated a 16x16 icon file.

16x16 pixels isn't a lot of room to show the Sun logo and still retain the visual appearance, but it's not too shabby. I then downloaded the icon file and then uploaded it into my blog resources area.

Following the instructions of the Favicon web site, I then added the line:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/richb/sun_favicon.ico" >

to my Weblog template, and now, when you visit my blog directly in a browser, the icon appears at the front of the current URL area. At least in modern browsers like Mozilla, Firefox and Safari. The icon also shows up nicely in my Firefix page tabs. The Favicon web site also automatically creates an animated gif of the icon as well. Very nice.

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( May 01 2006, 05:28:00 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [2]