Favicon and iPhone Dock Icon

Website Favicon and iPhone Dock Icon

When completely branding a website with flashy graphics, don’t overlook the favicon and iPhone dock icons.

Favicons are super quick and easy to generate online using the favicon.ico generator. FTP into your website and save the created file on your web server.

Here’s my favicon:  favicon

You can also display a custom iPhone icon that displays if your website is saved as a bookmark to the dock (home screen). Create a 57px by 57px image and save it in the root of your web directory as “apple-touch-icon.png”. Mobile Safari looks for that file and if it exists, will use it by default. I prefer to be more explicit and define it with a LINK element along with the favicon.

Here’s how mine looks on my iPhone dock. Not bad.

iphone dock

Now for the code. Add these two LINK elements to the head of your document:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="relative/path/to/favicon.ico" />
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="relative/path/to/apple-touch-icon.png" />

This is a really simple way to add some nice detail to your branding efforts.

May 2, 2009 | Filed Under Dev, atomSix, web sites | Leave a Comment 

Prevent Image Hotlinking

Append “No Hotlinking” Code to the.htaccess File

Protect your bandwidth whenever possible. By adding a few lines of code to your root level .htaccess file you can prevent external websites from directly loading your images, audio, and video files.

Add the following code to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.?your-domain.com/.$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.gif|jpe?g|png|mov|avi|wmv|mpe?g$ - [F]

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May 2, 2009 | Filed Under Dev, atomSix, htaccess | Leave a Comment 

Super Silo Flyer Designs

Inspiring flyer designs from Dutch graphic designer, Super Silo.

See the backs of these flyers along with many more designs or visit the portfolio of the artist.

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April 23, 2009 | Filed Under atomSix, design | Leave a Comment 

DJ Obama Shirt

Obama – That’s My DJ!

Show your excitement for the coming changes with President Obama! Proud of our country for finally bucking the trend of old guys in office who seem to kinda mess things up? Rock this shirt and keep people psyched about the future. Getcha sum

DJ Obama

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April 23, 2009 | Filed Under atomSix, awesome, design, leisure | Leave a Comment 

Krylon Spray Paint Lamp

Krylon Spray Can Lamp

Made from a vintage Krylon can in Portland, Oregon by artist Jake Rankin. The arm clips onto any tabletop or bookshelf surface and swivels to shed light on any situation. The on/off switch is the paint nozzle!

Krylon Spray Can Lamp

Light bulb included – standard 30watt flood light, easy to change.

Each lamp is custom made , just choose your color preference (anything!) after ordering and if you would like a Krylon or Montana spray paint can.  For all you b-boys and b-girls. Chillin at your desk.

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April 23, 2009 | Filed Under atomSix, awesome, design, gadgets | Leave a Comment 

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