The funny thing is that I find myself revamping the site in 2007 trying very hard to approach a design I made up in the beginning of 2006. The icons below were actually designed for a blog-like Dinarius.com at the beginning of 2006 when the first CSS-like design turned out to be too tough for me to keep up in HTML.

So whatever the outcome (this is the first transferred article) the info may still pertain to what you’re searching for and if you too are a graphic designer turned webmaster, I feel your pain. All “Articles About This Site” may interest you; so check that category! – BryanA.

8.31 – In a new attempt to not type too much and conserve some energy for fixing computers and getting stuck in traffic, brevity is paramount. “Favicon” That’s the little thing that appears when a page is, “Added To Favorites.” With the arrival of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) many file types will be valid. Currently, the file extension is .ico

In refurbishing our own icons, we got a surprise. DIGG.com is the foremost authority on popular recommendations. A search in ‘All Digg’ for ‘favicon’ revealed one tiny result. Ironically, searching for icons revealed a DIGG competitor still in BETA. Oddly, BlinkList acts a lot like your Favorites list. You can save sites you’ve seen in the blink of an eye but have no time for.

Searching favicons at Google turned up Joe’s BlinkList. Go figure. More popular gets more blinks: An HTML kit gets top rank – we saw it, but didn’t bite; No.2 is HTMLbasix delivering generic information and mean-spirited popups hence, no link; No.3 actually just refers to FavIcon.co.UK which turns out to add another goodie.

Favicons can be 16×16 pixels and 32×32 pixels depending on their use. The Header Tag will contain two “link ref” elements as follows:

Drum roll… Best icon maker at the push of a button. Could it be that easy? Sure; Dynamic Drive even allows you to put the maker on your site. Good idea, eh? ;) Thanks for reading while we revamped our catagories.