Comments on: CyberNotes: Creating A Transparent Favicon.ico For Your Website

By: the_hacker

the_hacker — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:52:35 +0000

Thanks hackit08..
I really appreciated !

By: hackit08

hackit08 — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:48:46 +0000

Its just simple!
Open your jpeg/bmp file in photoshop and change into png!
Then use command prompt to make ico..
For making transparent..make sure you remove the background with magic wand tool or other tools in photoshop.
THATS it!

By: The Rooster

The Rooster — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:15:05 +0000

Hey that is pretty cool, NP. I was not trying to be a smart arse, but I read the post and I was like whoa… dude, don’t invent the wheel.

I am constantly looking for short-cuts to do things, our podcast is aimed at “users” as opposed to coders or people skilled at projects like you describe. This is a very good example of the fact that regular “users” can do great things if they have the resources and know where to get them.

By: jkrebs1

jkrebs1 — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:00:07 +0000

man, you don’t even need to create an ico file. you can just use straight png.

i do it on all my sites. just add something like this…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:55:09 +0000

The second one that you listed I don’t believe supports transparency, but the Dynamic Drive one actually does which really surprises me. Several online Favicon generators that I have used normally don’t support transparency which makes the icons look ugly when they are on tabs or something.

I still like to use that program because I pretty frequently generate favicons so it is nice to have the software to do it, but I’m going to add the Dynamic Drive link to the post. Thanks!

By: The Rooster

The Rooster — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:10:44 +0000

Errrr that does seem to be very complicated when you could just go here:

[tools.dynamicdrive.com]

or here

[chami.com]

and create it from any image on your PC and generate it in seconds. I might be missing something but this seems to be far simpler to me.