Tricks: Your Site Needs a Favicon
Sam HarrelsonBlogs, Firefox, Tricks May 24th, 2007Sara Christensen’s Pajama Professional blog is a nice resource for web workers and at-home affiliate marketers. Here’s a post that particularly resonates with me, because I tend to have at least 20 or so Firefox tabs open at any time.
Favicons help your blog stand out. You’ll see the fortune cookie favicon for this site in your address bar above and in the tab (if you’re using Firefox or IE7).
If you’re interested in making your site standout while building some branding, you need a favicon as Sara suggests. Here’s a nice “how to” from her blog…
I’ve noticed lately that when I have eight or ten tabs open in Firefox, the pages that have customized their logos really stand out. It’s struck me many times in the past, but lately it’s really been making an impact. Today, instead of just thinking “that’s so cool” and wondering “how’d they do that?” and moving on with something else, I decided to figure it out. So here are the steps involved in creating that cute little customized address bar icon for your website. And in case I’m not the only person on the earth who didn’t know this, that little logo is called a favicon (fav-eye-con):



May 24th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Get one if for no other reason to eliminate the ‘404 not found’ errors in the logs from browsers looking for it.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Good point Scott, I think 99% of our log errors are favicon… some time ago I was constantly trying to find who the heck was promoting a “Favicon” on our site, I was sure it was Forzieri and a new Italian brand
May 25th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Here’s a free and easy place to create a favicon: http://www.programguru.com/
May 25th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Hadn’t seen that yet… thanks for the tip.
There’s also http://www.favicon.co.uk (if you feel like calling soccer “football”).