Tools to Create Icons for your Website

One of my least favorite tasks to do when creating a website is to generate an icon.  Icons are those little 16 x 16 bit images that appear next to a URL in a browser address bar or these days with tabbed browsing the icon also appears next to the page title name in the tab, just to the left.

Example of Address Bar with Icon

Example of Tab with Icon

Now, let me just say right off the bat, that I suck at creating icons for websites.  That said a bad icon can sometimes be better than no icon at all. 

So here are a couple tools that might help you create better looking icons than I can create.

1. EasyApps
2. PixelToolBox

I have been using PixelToolBox for about a year now and you can tell by the results above that I am not terribly great with the tool.  I did find EasyApps a little easier.  With EasyApps, I was actually able to create an icon with Illustrator and then copy the image into EasyApps, where it is converted into a pixelated icon.

Best of luck, this is just one area where I can never seem to get it right, but I do wish you the best with your own efforts. Every time I give this a try it makes me want to pack web design in and go install TV’s or tv mounts or something.

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