Have you ever come across icon images? Or may be you don’t even know exactly what are they? Under icons we understand predominantly small graphic images or pictograms. Mainly All Icons are widely used to assist users. They have a general look of standard file. But you can also create your own special icons of any kind with the help of particular software program which helps to produce image in appropriate ICO format.

As for the size of icons it may vary. It depends on the application the icon coupled with and may be 60X60, 48X48, 32X32, 24X24, 16X16 and 15X15 Icons pixel images. Besides as for the colors any icon image must have 16 or 256 hues. 

You’ve come across the word “Favicon” but don’t know what does it mean? We explain! You surely have the list of the most visited sites. Open it and you will surely see the small icon placed by the site link. It is Favicon. Such gadget helps to do any site differ from the great amount of them in Net and thus creating something like portal trademark. Usually site developers choose as Favicon some particular thing or symbol that advertises the main stuff of the site and looking at it the visitor can easily deduce what is on offer on this or that portal.      

  Now let’s regard our next section – how to create your own Adorable Icons. Firstly you should have any icon producing program. It can be easily found in Net. One of the mostly used such programs is Icon Easel. Primarily you point your icon size and color scheme from the popup menu. Nothing difficult and your future icon shape is ready according to your wishes. It is recommended you use mainly 16x16 pixels images but of course it’s up to you to decide in this respect. 

Now it’s high time for designing your future icon. First the big window appears. It is your working icon canvas which consists of the definite number of squares. They are your icon pixels which you can edit anyway you want it. For these purposes you can make use of tools placed on the left side of your monitor. Edit these pixels and design icon to your liking.

Image for your icon.

As the basic image of your icon you can use anyone either from your computer or appeal to the ready for your choice image patterns. The second way is much easier and don’t take you much time.

Transparent Background for your icon.

There is nothing difficult in making the background of your future icon transparent. The transparence should be added till the whole icon canvas will be covered up to end. For this you should pass the command “Screen" on the right of your monitor. The transparency lines emerge within your left color window. In order to affix transparency to each pixel, you should choose the "Flood Fill" command on the left side of your monitor and add to those pixels you want to be transparent.

Your final step is saving your own new icon as favicon.ico and then downloads on your server where your HTML files are kept.

Creating your icon you can appeal to HTML ebook compilers that help to show your created icon on the desktop of your visitor if he clacks on it.   

So as you see there is noting difficult in icon production and displaying. It is really interesting and entertaining occupation which doesn’t take you more than several minutes.