How to Create a FavIcon For Your Site
September 25, 2007
A favicon (which is short for “favorites icon”) is a small image that is used to identify a website in the address bar of a browser; it may also appear next to the title of a web page when it is saved to a user’s favorites.
Below is a list of sites that allow you to create your own favicon:
Favicon Generator - The favicons generated from this site use text instead of images, but you can still change the color of your favicon.
Collabyrinth - If you’d rather paint your own favicon pixel by pixel, this free online tool allows you to do just that.
Favicon Editor - Upload an image and click a button to automatically generate your own favicon!
FavIcon from Pics - Just the like the link above, this tool allows you to generate a favicon from an uploaded image. This site also has a favicon validator (to make sure your favicon has been inserted correctly on your page) and a Buddy Icon Generator.
favicongenerator - Create your own favicon in five easy steps!
GraphicsGuru Favicon Generator - Upload an image, click the generate button and voila, you have a favicon! This site also includes some other useful tools, such as an 80×15 button generator and a Google PageRank button you can put on your website that automatically updates as your PageRank changes.
Once your favicon has been created you will need to upload the file to the root directory of your website and put the following code in the header of your HTML page:
<LINK REL=”SHORTCUT ICON” HREF=”http://www.yourwebsite.com/favicon.ico” />
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E-mail Management Made Easy
September 17, 2007
One sign of a true DotComPreneur is having multiple domain names and e-mail accounts, which can make the task of checking e-mail quite time consuming and difficult.
The easiest way to manage multiple e-mail accounts is to use a web-based e-mail client, like Gmail rather than a desktop mail client (such as Microsoft Outlook). With a web-based e-mail client you will be able to check your e-mail from any computer that has internet access, no matter where you are in the world. A major disadvantage to using a program like Outlook to check your e-mail is that your messages are downloaded from the server onto your computer, making them unavailable when you check your e-mail later from another computer. Even if you select the option to “Leave a copy of each message on the server,” keeping track of which messages you have already read and/or replied to can be very confusing.
Below are the Top 7 Reasons Why Every DotComPreneur Should Be Using Gmail:
- You can check your e-mail from any computer in the world with internet access.
- You can send & receive e-mail from multiple accounts.
- Gmail integrates with all of Google’s other services, like Google Calendar and Google Chat.
- Organizing your e-mail has never been easier than using labels.
- Gmail offers the world’s best spam protection
- Following e-mail “conversations” makes life easier
- It’s FAST, FUN, and best of all … FREE!
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