I got tired of seeing all the server errors for favicon.ico in my logs. Yeah, I could have filtered them out, but instead, I choose to take a twist on Blue Needle’s logo (I should really put it on the main site somewhere) and make one of my own. So, I used a trial version of Icon Easel 98 from Easy Apps to make one. Check it out, it’s up there in your address bar (and/or tab if you’re using a tabbed browser like Firefox.)

I read somewhere that a particular version of IE only usees the 16×16 sized icons, so I used that as my canvas. Pasting in from an external program came to be more of a hassle. Icon Easel 98 wouldn’t accept anything that was not the same aspect ratio (despite twiddling with all the paste settings.) Once I had the right ratio, it didn’t scale it all, it just placed a garbled mess of colored squares. BUT, it got my color pallette into the icon, and I just winged it from there.

After saving and uploading the icon to my site, I put the following two lines in the head of my main site’s header include file as well as the index.php page of my Wordpress installation.

<link rel=”icon” href=”http://www.blueneedle.com/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”/>
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://www.blueneedle.com/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”/>

Let me know what you think of it!