As a result of overwhelming popular demand, the iconfu team has implemented the No. 1 most desired feature: "How do I make favicons?"
favicons are those little pictures that remind you which site you're on without having to actually read text. Firefox, for example, shows a favicon in each tab:
Not many people know this: you only need the .ico format for Internet Explorer. If IE isn't important in your market, you can use any old 16x16 .png image and it will do the job. Just include this in your header:
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/path/to/icon.png"/>To specify a favicon for Internet Explorer, create a file called "favicon.ico" in the root folder of your webserver. For Rails projects this would be under "public/", for java projects, this would be in the folder that contains the "webapp/" folder. This file must be in .ico format.
Here's the fun part: to create a favicon, draw or upload your icon in iconfu, and click the ".ico" link in the preview panel. You can't miss it. It looks like this:
Similarly, if you're browsing the library and want to grab any of the 9000 free icons provided by some of the world's greatest icon artists as .ico or .gif files, just open up the icon information panel and hit the ".ico" or ".gif" download link. Again, you can't miss it:
This means that all of your favourite free, open-source icons are now available as GIF or ICO as well as PNG formats. Enjoy!
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