Maybe I should start with a warning: this entry will be a little technical.

I added a favicon to this blog and website. A favicon is a small picture an icon) associated to a website. Browsers which support favicons, display them in the URL field:




next to the site’s name in lists of bookmarks (Favorites on IE):

,and next to the page’s title in the tab of the interface.

A favicon is a quick and visual way to bookmark and see a web site. In fact, in my Firefox bookmark, I have deleted the title of most of the sites I added to my bookmark toolbar and kept the favicons only. This way, I can have much more bookmarks in the bar, they are easily recognizable and accessible. Here is a portion of my bookmark toolbar (try to recognize some favicons!!):

To create, install and validate my favicon, I followed the clear instructions given on chami.com website. (in section ” Favicon from Pics”)
Finally, Smashing Magazine has recently published a series of 5 articles on favicons, including galleries of beautiful and creative favicons.

Links:
• thefavicongallery.com
• “How to create a favicon” on chami.com
• Galleries on Smashing Magazine