Are You Using Favicons?
 

Wrote a little today while doing some graphics:

http://www.ch33rs.com/favicons.html

if you can read, take a look ^

:thumbsup

I will start using them when I figure out how to redirect them to download an .exe

nice article, how hypocritical, ch33rs doesnt have a favicon, j/k

yeah it does homie.

you may have to refresh if you had it bookmarked, i created this tutorial while doing the favicon for CH33RS. :)

http://www.html-kit.com/e/favicon.cgi

create favicons from uploaded pics

niceeeeeeeee

it does.

I don't think favicons are that great.

Thanks for the link.

they arent that great.

like anything, useful or useless - depending on how you look at it.

I think they look kinda nifty... much better in FireFox than just a blank page icon before the url.

One day I was trying to figure out why my 404 page was pulling a larger than usual load on my server (my 404 page has a lot of crap in it) and figured out that when someone was trying to get my favicon.ico the server was trying to return a full 404 page, so if anything, uploading a favicon.ico took care of that problem.

I've always used them :)

Aren't favicons purged if someone uses a cache cleaner? My threads from GFY I send to my desktop lose the middle finger icon and are replaced with a standard IE icon after I reboot and my cleaners run.

favicons are for the guys who have the spyware installed that are going to let your affiliate sales be stolen:glugglug

I'm using them on every my site

you missed the most important reason for using a favicon
it tells you how much of your traffic is book mark traffic.

I use them :)

Another tip, it's easier to make the favicon in like 32x32 mode, then resizing it down to the standard favicon size.

Having a favicon is not a good way to try to see if you have bookmarkers for the last several years.. Modern browsers try to pull it up on entry whether bookmarked or not.

I think prior to IE 5.0 it was helpful, but not since then.

I use them because I got sick of seeing all the failed attempts to retrieve them in my logs, lol. :)