CUSTOM iPHONE ICON?
Yes, yes, ye old non technologically minded people, there is a extremely easy way to create a custom Apple iPhone or
iPod Touch icon for absolutely free. Creating a custom iPhone icon can be useful for anyone who has a website or blog. It looks much more professional to have a nice looking custom icon, so that anyone that saves your site to there iPhone of iPod Touch home screen(s) will be able to instantly have your custom logo on there screen. Ok, so, here we go.
#1 Get the right tools
In order to
create a custom iPhone icon you will need to have some kind of image editing software such as Adobe Photoshop. Really anything that will allow you to save a .png file after editing it.
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The next thing you will need is a FTP uploading software, or someway to upload to your hosting server.
#2 Create the Icon
First of all open Photoshop or whatever your image editing software is and create a new file withe the dimensions of 55px x 55px - this is the size of icon that Apple requires for it to be formatted correctly on the iPhone or
iPod Touch. Use the text tool, import an image or both onto the art-board of your editing program to create a cool iPhone icon. Follow these artistic guidlines.
a) create something that is easy for people to remember
b) make the colors contrasting so that the icon is easy to visually see.
c) don't try to be Picasso - simple is best.
#3 Save and Upload
SAVE:
After
creating your custom iPhone icon, save the file as a .PNG. Make sure the file name is exactly as listed below otherwise Apple will not be able to find the image once uploaded:
apple-touch-icon.png
UPLOAD:
Open your FTP client and log on to your server (location where your website is stored). Locate the newly created custom iPhone icon and upload the file to the root directory of your server - this is usually something like public_html/.
THAT'S IT - YOU HAVE A CUSTOM iPHONE ICON
Now every time someone saves your webpage to there iPhone of iPod Touch the newly created custom icon will be saved as the icon on their phone or mp3 player. Cool! Easy!
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