WebDesign&Such

I don’t know about you, but I read a lot of different forums and blogs. I’m always fascinated by peoples avatars, gravatars, etc. I’ve noticed recently a lot of people have these little cartoon caricatures of themselves. Could they all be that good at art? Not likely.

Then the other day I stumbled across how they are creating them. I’ll show you how here.. and even if you don’t care about having an avatar of yourself, it’s worth checking this free program out.

I mean, who doesn’t want a little cartoon self?

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First off.. what is a FAVICON?

A Favicon is the little picture that shows up next to the domain name in your web browser.

WD&S Favicon

Beantown Design Favicon

Read on to find out how to create your own Favicon, and add it to your website, or Wordpress Blog.

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Yesterday I talked about KeyMaster, a Password Management System. Article Link

Today I’m going to show another quick add on that can help speed up the password creation process. If you have a Mac (if you don’t I’m sorry for you!), you know about widgets. Quick little programs such as a clock, ski report, dictionary, etc. I found a password generator widget, so now creating passwords is as easy as opening the dashboard and hitting Generate. Copy, paste into Keymaster and you are good to go. I love little programs like that.

Download the password generator widget here.

A Gravatar or Avatar is the little picture that shows up next to your comments on blogs. Setting one up is really simple, and it follows you from blog to blog, so you can look the same everywhere on the internet.

Here’s an example:

Read on to see how to make your own Gravatar in under 5 minutes:

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