Tag: web design

Real Favicon Generator

Real Favicon Generator is a handy tool for setting up your website’s favicon properly.  It takes care of both the images (formats, resolutions, etc) and the HTML that you’ll need to include.  With just a few clicks your website will work properly with browsers, operating systems, and mobile applications.

With so many platforms and icons, it’s hard to know exactly what you should do. What are the dimensions of favicon.ico? How many Touch icons do I need? RealFaviconGenerator did the reseach and testing for you.

If you still prefer to do it yourself and know all there is to generating proper favicon images and markup, have a look at this resource for everything there is to it and more.

LINGsCARS.com – website of the day

LINGsCARS.com deserves some kind of title and reward.  I’m giving it a website of the day award, as I’m still stunned for words.

On one hand, it serves as a painful reminder of how the web used to be back in the 90’s.  It got everything from psychedelic background and auto-played music to animated GIFs and mouse hover effects.

On the other hand, it does stand out from all pastel colored material designed websites of today.  Obviously, a lot of work went into building this thing and … somehow … strangely … it works.

Now, please excuse me while I wipe my bloody tears…

P.S.: Yeah it also took me a while to actually prepare that screenshot.  Full-page image was too large.  Cropping it down significantly brought it down to just under 5 MBytes, after which TinyPNG compressed it to just 1.4 MBytes.

History of Icons

History of Icons looks at the evolution of icons used for desktop, mobile, and web.  There are plenty of nostalgia triggering screenshots from a variety of systems.  Given that nobody could ever afford having all of those systems, I’m sure you’ll find interesting screens from computers you didn’t have or didn’t see.