Fav Iconic PS Plugin

Favicons have always been the bane of my existence. 16×16 pixels is not a lot of real estate to define the essence of a website and i always forget which of my graphics programs will export a .ico file format (Lemke’s Graphic Converter).

It’s bad enough I can’t seem to control the color shift in images processed using "save for web" command, and, really, wouldn’t life just be a little easier if I didn’t have to leave Photoshop yet again to process a web-related thing?

Enter Toby Thain of Telegraphics.com.au. His site offers an easy-to-install plugin for Photoshop CS3 that saves as Windows ico favicon! Thank God!

Visit his site for this and more PS Plugins.

 To see some really masterfully designed favicons, visit Smash Magazine’s Favorite Favicons

I was having trouble making the favicon consistently show up. If your WP blog is having trouble finding your favicon, you might consider copying the favicon in the root folder . Edit the header.php, specifically the favicon code which looks like this:

link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="<?php echo get_settings(’home’); ?>/wp-content/themes/revolution_magazine-20/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"  

to this:

 

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" />

or

<link rel="icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" />

 

the relative link to the favicon sometimes doesn’t always work.