It’s interesting just how useful a really good favicon is. I wound up putting one in for this one, because I was going crazy locating it among all the other plain-folded-page default favicons in my tabs. I typically have dozens of tabs going in a Firefox session. I started out first with that little curlique thing that comes with the original default template (I’m going to modify it to a point where I’ll probably have to rename the theme to avoid confusion ) but I decided it wasn’t really that identifiable or memorable. If I scan my tabs there are several that I can see at a glance. Delicious is readily identifiable as is Gmail, LiveJournal, Bloglines, Blogger (it’s ugly but it totally jumps out), Google (but Google calendar isn’t that great), Technorati and so on. So when I switched to the more floral style header above, I tried using one of the flowers…but it renders down into a rather indistinguishable blob. So I gave up and just used the DR initials, using the same font as in the name above, and I think that works out pretty well.

For the SCLRR website, I tried miniaturizing the little dog in their logo but again blobbiness was the general result. My coworker thought it was a fellow smoking his pipe. Sigh. So I just found a small cartoon bone on the ‘net and shrunk that down, and I think that works pretty well. I may transparent the green out, but for the moment I’m letting it be.

But wait! Why stop now?! I’ve resurrected another old site of mine, that I took down because back in the day several gigs of bandwidth were too expensive to pay for (I now get ten times the bandwidth for a fraction of the price; go figure). Now this site is a throwback to 1995 era websites (so no giggling), but I’ve at least started it off with a new favicon, and will be cleaning this site up as well.