iPhone Icons

We've already looked at icons in a number of ways. In the last post we saw how you can generate your own Favicon, in an earlier post we saw where you can find icons with Icon Finder.

Well now we have a way of creating iPhone styled icons that can also be used for as in iPhone favicon or on your website or anywhere else for that matter. All you have to do is upload your image and a pack of icons are created for you to download.

Here is one I made earlier:

Click on the icon to go to the online icon generator and create your own set of icons.

Your Favourite Icon

What is a favicon? How do I make one for my website?

If you have asked one of those questions before then this post is for you. What's a favicon? The word is a combination of two words, "favourite" and "icon". When you save a website to your favourites, this icon is what you see beside the favourited website's name, hence the name, "favicon".

Depending on the type of browser you are using you can also see them in the address bar. Here is what this blog's favicon looks like in the Firefox browser on a Mac.

You can change these to suite your website. For example, you can make your favicon the same as you company logo.

But how do you create one?

You'll be pleased to know that there is a free online tool that can create a favicon for you. Just be sure that you start with a square image.  Click on the Favicon Maker below:

I Can Icon

Icons are sometimes thought of like icing on a cake, the cake being your website.

They can also serve a very important functional purpose, sending visual information directly to the visitor with a recognisable visual image. Email and RSS are two that appear on almost every site, and more and more these days Twitter, Facebook and all the other social networks.

When building a website it is not always easy to find icons to use. Do you just do a web search for icons? Or have you collected a bunch of icons that you've lifted from other people's websites as you find them?

Avoid the possible legal and stylistic problems by using this excellent tool:




You can type straight into the search field to search for the particular icon you need or you can browse the collections.

It's very nicely presented so that you can see how many icons are in each set, a preview of the set, a link to the author's website, and a license telling you how they can be used. Many of these are free for commercial use and some are also licensed under specific Creative Commons license.

* Editor's Note: As always, such useful tools are added to the Weaver's Digest Tool Box on the right panel >>>