Transparent Favicon
So you think you’ve “seen” every favicon out there? If you don’t feel like creating a favicon (the little icon that shows up in many browsers when your site is bookmarked), then you can take the easy route and go transparent. The neat thing about this one is that it blanks out the default Microsoft icon in Internet Explorer. It might have the effect of getting someone’s attention or at at the very least serving as a conversation piece.
Blog post December 16th, 2005 by Emory Rowland in Graphic Design, Site Updates
September 19th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
No matter what I do, I keep getting a white background when I try to make it transparent. First I created a gif with a transparent background and used an online tool to transform it into a favicon. This added a white background. Next I tried, IconEdit32, but this appears to give me a black background when I attempt to delete the white. What do you think I should do? Thanks.
September 19th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
If you select 16 X 16 with 16 colors in IconEdit32, you should see a box listed in the color palette with a blue line through it. That represents transparency in the palette. So, in your image anywhere those boxes are should be transparent when saved.