Favicons - do they make a difference?

Helloearthling · Post by **Helloearthling** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:09 am

Does a comic having a favicon actually matter to you?
I'm just wondering if it's worth the effort of making one. I don't see how much effect they have.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:11 am

I can assure you a favicon is nothing more than a tassle on the shiny red bike that is a webcomic, and you should probably focus on other things if you find yourself sinking hours into it.

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:49 am

I like favicons; they're fun.
it's interesting to have a bunch of tabs open and know what they are just by the favicons alone (bookmarks menus too).

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:53 am

Are favicons those tiny images that appear next to your site's name when someone bookmarks it?
Last time I tried to make one, it took me about five minutes, there's a bunch of sites that make one for you, you only have to supply the image.
I dunno how much they do for promotion of one's site, fut it's fun to see your little icon up there with others.
As a user I find them moderately helpful for spotting your link out of the bunch.

Lianweijun086 · Post by **Lianweijun086** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:36 am

Yea, that's exactly what favicons are. I created one for my site, I find it quite helpful, actually. While it won't actually get your comic out there any faster, once someone does read it and decide to bookmark the comic, it's comes in handy. Scrolling through "bookmarks" folders, or just through the browser tabs. It makes it easy to identify your comic. But like Killbert mentioned, if you find yourself spending hours upon hours on making one... you're probably almost done. But if you FORESEE hours ahead of you working on one, you should probably not worry about it.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:10 am

I mostly made mine for a touch of personalisation. More practically, yeah, I do find them useful for identifying links in my bookmarks folder as well.

Tynan · Post by **Tynan** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:04 pm

Killbert-Robby wrote:I can assure you a favicon is nothing more than a tassle on the shiny red bike that is a webcomic, and you should probably focus on other things if you find yourself sinking hours into it.

Less culture you! You're in my part of the world now!

Go with a Fav if you want to differentiate it from the hundreds of other favorited sites that the reader/web person has in their drop down.

For instance Robby has a favicon of a dwarfs manhood on his site...trust me everyone knows where they're going when they see that lil guy.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:28 pm

Tynan wrote:
Killbert-Robby wrote:I can assure you a favicon is nothing more than a tassle on the shiny red bike that is a webcomic, and you should probably focus on other things if you find yourself sinking hours into it.

Less culture you! You're in my part of the world now!

Go with a Fav if you want to differentiate it from the hundreds of other favorited sites that the reader/web person has in their drop down.

For instance Robby has a favicon of a dwarfs manhood on his site...trust me everyone knows where they're going when they see that lil guy.

Your pants?
Bah-zing

Tarts · Post by **Tarts** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:11 pm

I'd miss that black and white invisi-globe icon too much.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:16 pm

Cope wrote:I mostly made mine for a touch of personalisation. More practically, yeah, I do find them useful for identifying links in my bookmarks folder as well.

Cope make me a favicon for my site, do it now.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:10 pm

Pimpette wrote:I like favicons; they're fun.
it's interesting to have a bunch of tabs open and know what they are just by the favicons alone (bookmarks menus too).

This.

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:41 pm

K-Dawg wrote:
Cope wrote:I mostly made mine for a touch of personalisation. More practically, yeah, I do find them useful for identifying links in my bookmarks folder as well.
Cope make me a favicon for my site, do it now.

shit, one more thing to add to list

Metruis · Post by **Metruis** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:43 pm

I find Favicons make it easier to identify a site in a long list of dropdowns from my bookmarks. I have a lot of CG comics bookmarked and the nice little CG logo favicon makes it faster to find them amidst all the others.

Helloearthling · Post by **Helloearthling** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:07 am

Well, that's a pretty definitive jist. Alrighty, I'll shoot and make one.

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 4:30 am

I guess I just don't have this bookmark issue since I have like... 5 bookmarks. One is to an old forum I go to that doesn't even run anymore. And the other 4 I don't use at all

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:26 am

Erm... How is it possible to spend that long making a favicon? Even half and hour would be pushing it...

Lianweijun086 · Post by **Lianweijun086** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:59 am

Haha, I don't know... If you decide to manually draw in each of the 3249 pixels? That could take a while... I just shrunk a random image down and used that...

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:02 pm

Drawing manually didn't take me an hour either. Maybe if you were extremely perfectionist and weren't satisfied with anything and kept redrawing pixels over and over again.

Jpac · Post by **Jpac** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:31 pm

I'm going to take all of five minutes to make a favicon when I get home.

First favicon maker that came up on google.

Can someone explain to me why it has a maximum upload size of 150 kb?

Leafa · Post by **Leafa** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:17 am

Making a favicon might take a while if it's animated.... at least I think you can get animated favicons.

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