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I've said this before and I'll keep saying it: every site needs a favicon! It's a shame something so simple to create isn't everywhere yet. One example - http:/
by iaskwhy 17y ago
I've said this before and I'll keep saying it: every site needs a favicon! It's a shame something so simple to create isn't everywhere yet. One example - http://www.pulseapp.com/ http://www.pulseapp.com/ - which is the only site on my bookmarks bar without a favicon.
- aw3c2 17y agoFavicons are not simple to create. You have to create a tiny icon that fits to your site. I always have lots of trouble with it. That linked site though could simply use the green bars.
- shadowsun7 17y agoAgreed. To be honest, creating a logo itself is hard enough. Not to mention designing one that can scale down to a 16x16px image.
- iaskwhy 17y agoWell, I make logos myself and I only consider it done when I have a good logo at different sizes. I'd say a logo is only a good logo if it's scales to the size of a favicon or to something really big so you can use if on outdoors. It might sounds like too much trouble just to make a logo but it's better to think about it before than changing it afterwards.
- apathy 17y agoCut it out, you're disturbing the programmers who think they're designers. Why would anyone use a vector layout? You can charge more from clients who are already feeling the pain, so let them have a go at it first :-)
- chime 17y agoI don't have anything to say about Pulse favicon but the app itself tries to solve the same problem (and then some) like my Excel file here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/111770/CashFlow.xls http://dl.dropbox.com/u/111770/CashFlow.xls I use the above template to plan my personal finances and it works in a similar way to Pulse but at a very basic level. The funniest thing is just last night my wife said I could make a web-app out of the Excel and people would use it. Seems like Pulse did just that and a lot more.
- joeyo 17y agoI've more or less stopped paying attention to favicons ever since I started using chrome because they don't show up on the URL bar anymore. They're still there on bookmarks, true, but I basically don't use bookmarks anymore either. And most of my bookmarks bar is full of js bookmarklets (like Readability) that don't have favicons anyway.