Making Custom Icons for Google Toolbar
May 16, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under How To, Software & Online Apps
I’m a big fan of Google and one of the products of theirs that I use regularly is the Google Toolbar. I’ve started customizing it more than just accepting the standard set of icons that they recommend, but I’ve run into a bit of a snag.
As you can see from the image above, I’ve got three icons that are all the same, but they’re for three different things.
Does anyone know how in the world I can change the icon that’s being displayed there?
It’s really annoying. I want to achieve something like Facebook uses (the icon next to them) that makes it really easy to see which button I need at a glance. As it stands right now I’ve got to remember,
“Okay was twitter the 2nd icon? Wait, no I added one for GoDaddy, was it the first or 3rd?..No, TinyURL was in there first…..arrggh!”
To help me keep my sanity, will someone please help me with this little problem?
take a look at http://www.google.com/tools/toolbar/buttons/apis/howto_guide.html#makeicons
and
http://www.google.com/tools/toolbar/buttons/apis/howto_guide.html#updatebutton
Basically, you need to either create an icon and convert it to the right format using the process described in the link above, or find the URL of the icon you want to use. Then go into Google Toolbar -> Options -> Buttons (tab) -> (select the button to update) -> Edit -> Use the Advanced Editor. Then you paste in the details from the 1st step.
Good luck.
BRILLIANT! Thanks so much. I’m going to paste the code for my buttons below if anyone is interested.
Check this post for the code for twitter, GoDaddy and TinyURL icons for Google Toolbar http://www.uncovertheinternet.com/complete-custom-icons-on-google-toolbar/
How about office icons placed on the Google toolbar? (Outlook)
I have tried to find the file on my windows xp with office version 11 (2003) without much success.
I can find the exe for outlook but not the icon, image, or php.
Any ideas?
I was looking for a SIMPLE way to change those ? icons in the Google Toolbar. The suggestions need programming, much more than my current knowledge, much more time than I have. Any simpler solutions?
Awesome! Been wondering about no icon buttons for a while. Thanks!