Starbright Illustrations (blog)

By The Illustrator 　http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/2009/09/26/adding-a-favicon-to-my-3d-blog-wordpress-plugins/

Every time I open the dashboard on this interesting and experimental WordPress 3D blog I check the little section that shows three random plugins, I love plugins and widgets you see.

Today I saw this one > WordPress › Personal Favicon « WordPress Plugins and it immediately caught my attention because I have been itching to add a Favicon to my 3D Blender and role-playing games blog for ages. All the ultra professional 3D websites like, CG Arena and CG Society have a favicon – the little picture on the browser tab, and in the favourites list – and I have been eaten up with jealousy for some time that my cool CG site doesn’t have one. This plugin seems like it will do the job nicely though.

I read about favicons on Wikipedia because there wasn’t a lot of info included with the plugin and it seems I need a 16×16 or 32×32 pixel gif, or both I guess. So here they are > and , a couple of gifs, or do they need an .ico suffix, is that required (who knows this stuff?) . I cut them out carefully with Photoshop, but it looks like a rat nibbled them into shape. Perhaps I need to use a harder brush or something. Oh dear something so simple is going to take absolutely ages again.

Before I fart about trying to get a neat border on these gifs I think I’ll see if they actually turn up on the tab in my browser when I enable them. The perfect completed favicons will come in a later post.

Well, that’s enough messing with the world of 3D and optimising my blog, now it’s back to work.