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title: "Favicons – more web design trifles"
date: 2004-01-10
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2004"
    url: "/tag/2004.md"
---

# Favicons – more web design trifles

This is the last piece of self-promoting babble I’ll post for a while – I promise – but I thought I’d mention that I’ve added a [favicon](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210171107/http://www.zeldman.com/daily/1103a.shtml#favicon) to my weblog. I’ve been admiring the favicons displayed in my [Bloglines](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210171107/http://www.bloglines.com/) aggregator for some time now and a recent post by [Makiko Itoh](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210171107/http://www.makikoitoh.com/archives/2004/01/03/favicon.php#more) reminded me I should design one of my own. Here’s an example of favicons, copied from my Bloglines subscriptions:

Those are just my A-List subs btw (I group the A-Listers together, don’t ask me why). Some nice favicons there – I particularly like Mark Pilgrim’s yin-yang symbol. My new favicon is this:

You should now see this in your browser address bar and in all good RSS aggregators (mine may take a while to propogate). My design is pretty simple, compared to the ones reviewed by Makiko. It uses my site’s colours and fonts, with the r-slash-w standing for Read/Write. As I said, fairly basic, but because it’s only 16 x 16 pixels, it *was* quite fiddly to make. For Windows users, check out [Photomatt’s](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210171107/http://photomatt.net/archives/2003/11/13/how-to-create-a-favicon/) excellent overview on how to make a favicon. Once I’d created mine, I used [this online service](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210171107/http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/) to generate the .ico file. Then simply place it on your web server and add a reference to it in your homepage html (see photomatt for full instructions).

Right, this coming week I’ll be getting back to some serious **writing**…

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001786.php))*