FavIcons = Important
|I updated the favourites icon (FavIcon) on the EmaCartoon.com page last week. I told a friend subsequently thereafter, and was promptly thanked on behalf of all System Administrators.
What? Why? How could a measly 16 pixel x 16 pixel image have such an impact to be thanked on behalf of all SysAdmins? So I did what any normal girl would do – I asked (and then Googled it so I could translate SysAdmin speak).
Here’s the lowdown: Apparently, if a web host is managed in Apache (which most are), and a SysAdmin has to do some sort of work or other on it, Apache has a tendency to break or ignore a website if it is lacking a FavIcon. This can be annoying and somewhat hazardous to their health.
So show your SysAdmin some love: Add a FavIcon to your webpage today!
FavIcon generators can be found here:
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
http://www.favicongenerator.com/
Smashing Magazine has also ran a few articles with FavIcon examples/inspirations. Here is the latest:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/20/favicons-episode-8/
Great post! Just wanted to let you know you have a new subscriber- me!
Great article thanks for sharing!
Hi. I just needed to inform you that some parts of your site are tricky to scan for me, as I’m color blind. I am a sufferrer of tritanopia, but there are more forms of color blindness which will also get issues. I will read most of the site OK, and those areas I have difficulties with I am able to comprehend by using a adapted browser. Just the same, it would be cool if you could remember we color-blind types when doing the next web site redesign. Many Thanks.
That’s odd. I ran my site through the colour blind filter under tritanopia, and didn’t see any issues. Could you point out the difficult parts?