Where's the WebClip icon?

We've gotten a plethora of tips asking that we make a WebClip icon for iPhone & iPod touch home pages for TUAW. And we hear you. In fact, one sleep-deprived Macworld-covering TUAW blogger created a webclip icon (pre-empting all the tips -- which we're eternally grateful for nonetheless). As our server gurus get the icon fixed in place, we thought we'd share with you some handy links both for making icons for your own site, and perhaps to find one for TUAW in the meantime.

Waiting for a website to gain a WebClip icon? There's a load of sites available to either help you find an icon that's already been made -- such as WebClipMe! or the WebClip directory. clipalizer goes one better, allowing you to upload your own (correctly sized) PNG image and then use that as a webclip icon.

So how do I create my own WebClip icon? A WebClip icon is basically a 57-pixel-square PNG image called apple-touch-icon.png placed at the root of your server's web-content directory (though the Apple Developer Connection site lists a way that code-savvy users can specify a custom location for it, should they so choose). Whilst the icons appear rounded on the iPhone, you don't need to worry about creating curved corners, or even apply a button-esque mask in Photoshop: iPhone takes care of all of that -- "Safari will automatically composite the icon with the standard "glassy" overlay so it looks like a built-in iPhone or iPod application."

Thanks to all those who sent us pleading emails!

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Sam

APPLE-TOUCH-ICON.com

GREAT resource for sites that have an actual icon. Seems to be updated automatically and they let you add your own site to the listing.

January 23 2008 at 12:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Otsego_Undead

So did i miss it, or is there no way to associate the webclip icon with the RSS feed (my preferred way to view sites)?

January 23 2008 at 12:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steven C. Chang

http://www.paulchang.com

January 23 2008 at 11:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steven C. Chang

There is a nice implementation of a webclip icon at www.paulchangdesign.com

Works perfectly!

January 23 2008 at 11:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Patrick

This works much better:

http://www.nobodylikesonions.com/clipclick

It allows the use of other image types, higher resolution images, and allows you to make use of other's webclips. This should be added to the original post as it's the best tool out there!

January 23 2008 at 9:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fritz Laurel

I created my own TUAW webclip icon last week (seems like 10 years ago -- geez, TUAW, you're sooooo slow) and implanted it with a modified version of Peter's script (listed above). Looks great on my iPhone.

Here's a link to the icon I made if anyone wants it:
http://www.dyspersion.com/misc/clippngs/tuaw.png

Cheers,
FL

January 23 2008 at 1:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Michael Rose

Fritz, in fairness, Nik was all over this and actually created the webclip icon within hours of the keynote (all while shooting pictures and writing posts from the Macworld show floor). Since then we've been working with our infrastructure team (who have a lot of other sites to support) to get the webclip icon where it needs to be to work properly.

January 23 2008 at 8:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bill

any idea how to get this to work on .mac pages? I tried uploading the image to the root of my idisk and then the web directory and then the site directory inside the web directory.... blah blah blah...

Has anyone been successful?

January 23 2008 at 12:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Fritz Laurel

You have to add the "link ..." tag to the head of the web page.

See Apple's iPhone dev page for more:http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcenter/designingcontent.html

January 23 2008 at 1:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bill

Replying to myself...

I found this link.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1350127&tstart=0

January 23 2008 at 1:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

CMB

how do you change a file size to 57x57 once you have the picture?????

January 22 2008 at 11:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Fritz Laurel

Use something like Photoshop or Pixelmator to change the image's size.

January 23 2008 at 1:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael Rose

Or ImageWell (it's free).

January 23 2008 at 8:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

pegler

the article is wrong. WebClip Directory also allows for image uploads. It even converts gif and jpg to png format and has a cropper online to crop large images down to size.

January 22 2008 at 9:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Corey

Wasn't it decided that 59x59 was a better size?

January 22 2008 at 9:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply