Jul 01 2008
First Stab At Our Favicon
Chrissy heard somewhere that it’s important to have a “favicon” on your web site. She noticed that many other sites have little icons next to their URL (and on the page tabs in Internet Explorer 7), but our site did not. I told her that this was fairly easy to do, but I didn’t know what we would use as a favicon image. She didn’t have any suggestions, and it’s not like we have a family “Coat of Arms” or logo or mascot or anything, so I left it at that.
Today I decided to try to shrink the header image of our site down to fifty pixels. The result, a little maroon splotch on a blueish background, is a passable site icon. The approximation is close enough that you can see the resemblance when held side-by-side. Adding it to our WordPress template was easy. I think the icon is cute, even if a heavily bundled Aiden surrounded by snow isn’t very representative of the current summer weather. Maybe I should update the site header to something less seasonal and match the favicon image to that?
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Looks kind of like a black blog in Firefox when int he actual Icon position.
hozabout just a yooge dubya?
A huge “W”? Then people would think that I’m ripping off Wilson Sporting Goods. And that would be just lame. I’m tempted to design a family logo, but the only thing sillier than that would be designing a family Coat of Arms (think I did that once, when I was 10).
It looks like the .ICO file is not showing up in Internet Explorer. I’m going to have to fix that. You can see it just fine in Firefox, even if it looks like a big dark blob on a blue background. Like I said, you can see the resemblance if they’re right next to each other.
Michael