Why Favicons Are Useful
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In Thought on December 4th, 2005 |
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I can’t be doing with a lot of bookmarks, the only time I’ll use a bookmark is for something that I come accross that is very important and that I will need to go back to later.
For all the sites I go to on a daily basis I just remember the first couple of letters of the URL.
ctrl+t
w+e
*down arrow*
*enter*
And I’m at the webdev forums, for GMail it’s just g+m, for my site it’s just h+d etc.
And then of course, there’s always the links I put in my side-bar on my site, they’re not for other people, oh no, they’re for me. :D
December 4th, 2005 at 9:36 pm
I often do that myself, Dave, for sites that do not have favicons. Still, I find it more convenient and easier to find things by seeing their icons. Thanks for pointing that out, though.
December 5th, 2005 at 2:07 pm
How do you do that? Just delete it’s name?
December 6th, 2005 at 1:06 pm
Yes, bookmark the site, and if it has a favicon, the favicon will appear just before the name. Right-click, hit Properties, and empty the name field. Hit ‘OK’ and there will just be the icon remaining. Nifty, huh?
December 6th, 2005 at 1:30 pm
My wife doesn’t do bookmarks either, but then again I hooked her up so to speak. She has here own private, password-protected web page (a really pretty tropical beach theme). On it she has a tool to write notes to herself and well as a spiffy cascading links list of sites she uses. It’s like her own web portal. Actually, I guess that’s exactly what it is.
December 7th, 2005 at 8:42 am
lol. This reminds me of my bookmark toolbar.
monkeypup.org/media/pics/009.jpg
I use the Firefox extension “Favicon picker” so that I can replace favicons for bookmarks or give bookmarks without favicons icons of my choosing. Neat stuff.
December 17th, 2005 at 3:09 am
So why doesn’t your site have a favicon? It would complete your design, in my opinion.
January 17th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
In a previous life (well, a previous design at least), I did have a favicon. For now, I don’t, though, mostly because I’m not sure what best way to represent “Slightly Remarkable by Jonathan Fenocchi” in 16 pixels or less. ;)
January 17th, 2006 at 5:01 pm