Smashing Magazine is a popular web design blog that features informational articles on a variety of topics including graphics, fonts, CSS, design tools, design showcases, how-to’s, tutorials, tools and more. Currently, they have over 78,000 RSS feed subscribers and are considered to be one of the top premier web design resources out there.

SM recently expanded one of their popular article series’ on website favicons, where they showcased “70 outstanding favicons” on the web. Visible.net is proud to have our corporate site favicon featured as one of the 70 on Smashing Magazine’s recent blog article titled, Favicon Episode 7.

It’s such an honor for us to be included in Smashing Magazine’s favicon series. We hope the rest of our new site design is well in line with current web design best practices and that the rest of the graphics are just as pleasing to look at for our clients and users as the favicon apparently is.

What Is A Favicon Anyway?

Many novice Internet users are completely unaware of favicons, their purpose and the reason why they are created in the first place. Favicons are tiny 16×16 pixel icons that are displayed in browser bookmarks/favorites next to the website or page that was saved. Favicons are also sometimes displayed in browser address bars and browser tabs as a way to easily identify which site is open in which tab or page. Firefox is probably the best example of such a browser as they currently display favicons in bookmarks, next to the URL in the address bar and also next to the pages titles while tab browsing.

Visible.net Favicon

The Visible.net favicon is a representation of our brand and our website look and feel. We believe that the three “i’s” represent our mission goals; integrity, innovation and integration. Our website favicon helps visitors quickly and easily identify our brand with our content. Other than that, we think it’s pleasant to have an icon of our own to display across our valued users’ or clients’ bookmarks and browsers. We take pride in our brand and we always try to reflect it through our design, even if it is something as minor as our favicon design.

Here’s an example of our favicon in the address bar:

Here’s an example of our favicon in browser bookmarks:

Expert Ecommerce Clients Get Favicons Too

On a side note, I thought I would mention that our high-end ecommerce package offers custom favicons as a part of the services included. We go the extra mile to create graphics and images that do the same for our clients favicons as we try to do for ourselves. We use transparency for a clean look in all browsers or bookmarks, even those that have colored themes.

There are also many favicon generators available that can assist anyone who is interested in making their own custom website favicon. I personally use Adobe Photoshop to create favicons for sites I have built, so if you have it I recommend using that. Search for “favicon generator” or “favicon photoshop” in Google, there’s plenty of options out there so look at a few before deciding on the one you want to use.

Vote For Visible.net’s Favicon In The Faviconize Directory

Our favicon is posted on Faviconize. If you like it, please consider visiting our listing and voting for the Visible.net favicon!! Right now we have 4 total points, we’re looking to get enough to make the top favicon list in their directory. Thanks for the support!