Create a cool Speed Dial icon for your website

March 17, 2011 · by Espen André Øverdahl

As of version 11.10 (download the beta), Opera allows you to control how your website looks in Speed Dial. By default, Speed Dial uses a screen capture of the web site. But now site owners can specify an icon or serve Speed Dial-specific CSS or content.

So, in other words, you as a user can not control how the different sites looks in Speed Dial. It's up to the provider/website owners. We've modified My Opera to show custom content in the new Speed Dial flow. Let us know what you think.

You can also get the weather nicely integrated in Speed Dial.

If you want learn how to create a custom sweet looking icon for your website, check out this Dev.Opera article.

Readers' comments 18

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Samed AyanThursday, March 17, 2011 12:38:16 PM
TamilThursday, March 17, 2011 12:40:57 PM
Mağruf ÇolakoğluThursday, March 17, 2011 12:41:25 PM
Martin KadlecThursday, March 17, 2011 1:05:14 PM
I guess I should update the Weather speed dial "widget", so it uses this new speed dial possibilities
Charles SchlossThursday, March 17, 2011 1:20:58 PM
JoelThursday, March 17, 2011 1:22:55 PM
RachelThursday, March 17, 2011 1:32:56 PM
Erik HauboldThursday, March 17, 2011 3:45:57 PM
Originally posted by BS-Harou:

I guess I should update the Weather speed dial "widget", so it uses this new speed dial possibilities

that would be really nice
d4rkn1ghtThursday, March 17, 2011 5:38:30 PM
Alex_TroubleThursday, March 17, 2011 5:50:45 PM
hooooooooraaaaaaay!
Cutting SpoonThursday, March 17, 2011 9:06:36 PM
Thanks!
siti chaerani nonniFriday, March 18, 2011 2:35:56 AM
AlexisFriday, March 18, 2011 2:45:55 AM
A speed dial icon for Choose Opera would be nice, too.
siti chaerani nonniTuesday, March 22, 2011 2:23:21 AM
DavidWednesday, April 13, 2011 11:03:40 AM
Interesting. Will definitely try it myself. I'm just wondering, how to change the icons of websites that I do not own? I had created lots of icons for my speed dial but since 11.10 it seems that the icon generation works different including scaling and moving. I'd love if you could manually add a PNG in the edit dialogue of each speed dial icon.
Andreas StarrsjöWednesday, April 13, 2011 9:19:02 PM
"So, in other words, you as a user can not control how the different sites looks in Speed Dial"

Like everything about it except this

I want to choose myself.
Martin KadlecSunday, April 17, 2011 3:56:18 PM
Originally posted by LURKEN:

I want to choose myself.

Try this!
http://my.opera.com/BS-Harou/blog/your-own-speed-dial-icons
Cutting SpoonMonday, April 18, 2011 2:47:52 AM
There's also....ah. Nevermind, you found ForceSpeedDials. Good to see the API expanding!