How do I make my own iPhone icon for my website?

October 19, 2009

For starters, in case you haven’t been doing it already, you can bookmark a website on your iPhone’s homescreen.� It will appear the same as an app, but will serve as a link you to the site in Safari.

www-new.insivia.com
www-new.insivia.com
Insivia icon on an iPhone home screen.
Insivia icon on an iPhone home screen.

So, how do you do this for your own website?

1. Create an 45px x 45px image of your logo or name in Photoshop or another design program and save it as a .png.

Insivia icon png
Insivia icon as a png

2. Add this code into your <head>, same as you would for your favicon.

<link rel=”apple-touch-icon” href=”http://www.yourdomain.com/iphone-icon.png” />

You do not have to worry about rounding the corners or creating the gloss effect.� The iPhone does this for you.� The user will be in control of what text appears below on their screen, but this icon will now appear on their home screen as a nice dynamic image.

icon as it appears on iPhone
icon as it appears on iPhone

And there you go. This gives you a nice clear presence on your website viewers’ iPhones.



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