Do you have a favicon for your blog?

[ses5909]

Do you have a favicon for your blog? If not why not?? A favicon is another way to brand your site I think.

I have one for a few sites and I just put one up for ilovecode

http://www.ilovecode.com/favicon.ico

[Jelena]

No I don't. Although I find those cute. http://ilovecode.com/smilies/yahoo_giggle.gif

[snookca]

Gotta have one. http://snook.ca/favicon.ico ... and if you're curious on how to make one, I even wrote a post on it (http://snook.ca/archives/design/making_a_good_favicon/). :)

[ses5909]

Gotta have one. http://snook.ca/favicon.ico ... and if you're curious on how to make one, I even wrote a post on it (http://snook.ca/archives/design/making_a_good_favicon/). :)

Good post and great favicon!

[LiquidReflex]

Not yet, I need to actually design my own theme first before I move on to favicons ... but once that's done, then I'll definitely be adding one (which reminds me, I need to create a couple for my other sites). :P

[BlogBookmark]

in these days of tabbed browsing ala FireFox and now IE7 it's pretty much becoming a mandatory feature.

I used to think it was just a vanity thing until I realized 404 errors for my favicon not being there were taking up valuable harddrive space on my server :(

[Harrison]

No I don't use any because I don't know what to choose as my favicon :)

[BPartch]

I used to have one that I made, but then I changed servers and they have a default one in place so I just kept it. I need to make a new original one. :)

[Jeremy]

favicons rule teh interweb

[ses5909]

http://genxfinance.com/favicon.ico

your's is cool jeremy. I'm surprised you didn't go with an X.

[ses5909]

waaait a minute. let me take a screenshot...

http://www.ilovecode.com/pics/genx.gif

[Jeremy]

Ahh, you have found one of the bugs I'm too lazy to fix :)

I do have an X, but in a few parts of my theme I have some calls to the favicon that came with that particular theme. So depending on where you are on my site you will see an X or that gray and white box with a circle in the middle.

Great, now I have to actually work on my website today now that the world knows about my mistake :p

[ses5909]

.... now that the world knows about my mistake :p

http://ilovecode.com/smilies/yahoo_giggle.gif

[Emma]

OK, Sara and Snookca. I have been planning on adding a favicon. After reading this post. I tried it.

I created the favicon.ico fine. But I think I either put it in the wrong directory or my path is wrong. I use Wordpress hosted by dreamhost. I thought the root file was the first one that holds everything else.

Should I maybe put it in the theme file or some other wordpress folder. Any help will be appreciated.

Also if I ever get it right I'll post about it and include a link so Snookca's post plus some other good ones I found.

Thanks

[ses5909]

no you should put it in the root of your website... I don't see it there though:

http://www.itswritenow.com/favicon.ico

the root might be httpdocs or webroot..something like that.

[Emma]

Thanks Sara, that path was actually what I needed. It is there now and I also had to change the html in the header to reflect this path. It's not showing up yet. But maybe after I reboot. Anyway a step in the right direction. Thank-you.

[samwoodfin]

It's there, Emma.

[Emma]

Thanks, it shows up in firefox. Maybe I'll just have to wait until ie7 figures it out. OK I got it to work in IE7 as well. I guess this browser caches the history of icons. But clearing the history didn't help. But changing the name of the icon cleared it out. Now I have a post for next week. Thanks Everybody.

[goldfries]

No I don't use any because I don't know what to choose as my favicon :)

Harrison, generally your FAVICON should be one that represents your site. :D

you can refer to mine, how the favicon is part of the site design.

[dojo]

The same used throughout the entire site. I need to change it though .. my branding is a tad different now ..

[starfeeder]

starfeeder.com/favicon.ico

:D

What are your thoughts on animating favicons?

[ses5909]

@starfeeder - I moved your post to a different thread to show off your favicon. Just wanted to let you know :)

[samwoodfin]

*sighs* I sort of have one. It still shows up at my TypePad address, but not at my new domain. And I really don't get that...

[rodaniel]

Yup yup! We've had a favicon on our site for years now. It's not flashy, but certainly easy to make out.

[kimberlybarryd]

To get IE to make favicons show up you need to clear the cache and also do a restart.

[davemcnally]

I just realised I have yet to make one. Thanks for the reminder!

[kingjacob]

I had one but it looked to much like the human rights campaign logo ie yellow equal sign on blue back ground so I need a new one.

And now I have one its pretty simple but it I think it looks pretty good

[lilmissjenny]

I made one for my site too. Pixel'd it actually. xD

[deronsizemore]

Yep, I've got one. http://www.randomjabber.com/favicon.ico

[ses5909]

I finally made one for my wanderingfamily blog. The main image on the blog is

http://www.wanderingfamily.com/wp-content/themes/portrait/images/wflogo.gif

so Deron's world icon was a perfect fit!

http://www.wanderingfamily.com/favicon.ico

[SarahG]

How is the best way to create a nice smooth favicon? I've seen really detailed ones in the past that are really clear however anything I've ever tried doing has come out pretty naff. I have Photoshop, access to Illustrator (although don't know the first thing about it really!) and know about using the original favicon software. Is there something I'm missing?

[ses5909]

I create mine using Fireworks. Obviously I didn't create the globe one, but I created the others. Are you getting too detailed with them maybe?

[SarahG]

To be honest I've only played with a couple. I maintain a swiss watch site and at present the favicon is a really naff version of a Rolex Submariner that I 'drew' and it looks like a 5 year old did it! (mind you my design and drawing skills are that of a 5 year old :D ).

I've tried taking a photo of one (on a white background) and shrinking it down, and it's just barely legible. I guess it probably is too detailed as you say.

[malique]

i have a static and animated one.
you can view it on my blog

(i think it only works for ff)