Dec 14 2009

How to create a custom iPhone icon for your website

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Here’s a quick way to further enhance the branding of your website. If you don’t have an iPhone go get one. Then try bookmarking your website; (go to a website in your iPhone Safari browser, hit the + symbol, and hit “Add Bookmark“). What this does is take a small screenshot of the webpage and add it to your iPhone, right net to the other icons you have.

Well forget that, now we can make custom icons, so when somebody bookmarks your website, the icon is one that you actually created! As a designer I might be a little bit TOO excited about this, but hey, this is the stuff I live for. You can see in the above image the two icons I’ve created for my websites, WebDesignAndSuch and BeantownDesign. So now the icons match the favicons of my websites, and I can just touch them to launch my websites on my iPhone.

Keep reading to see how to create your own iPhone icons.
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