If you have an iPhone, and you have websites you visit regularly, did you know you can create a shortcut that looks just like an app? Just click the app, and you go immediately to that web page.

For example, I see the Empire State Building a lot and it’s always a different color. I like to go to whatcoloristheempirestatebuilding.com from my phone, and see what the ESB is honoring! So I made myself a shortcut to that site, on my iPhone home screen.

Here’s how to set up an iPhone shortcut to a website:

1. Open up Safari on the iPhone and go to the web page you want to be your shortcut.
2. At the bottom of the page, click on the box with the up arrow in it. (If you’re not running iOS 7, it will instead look like a rectangle with an arrow pointing to the right.)
3. Choose “Add to home screen.”
4. Name your “app” shortcut whatever you want.

That’s it! You should get an app on your iPhone that’s a shortcut to the web page you chose.

Unfortunately I haven’t found a way to change the image of the “app” shortcut. Unless the website has created a special icon for this, you’ll just get a mini version of the page design.