From all the classes I’ve taken in college, Mike Scott and Don Batory are two of my favorite professors. Aside of being well-prepared for lectures and such, the small details really do matter. The favicons on their websites for CS 307 and CS 378 are fantastic. Whenever I’m scrounging through my bookmarks or just looking among a dozen open tabs, having a quickly recognizable image helps me find just what I’m looking for right away.

A few years ago, I had fun using Gimp for one of the first times in creating the favicon for Chavez360. It was just a smiley face with a red headband. The favicon was very simple, but it symbolized something easily recognizable to any Chavez fan.

This blog is a whole different story, though. Even after almost a year of occasional posts, I don’t have a main focus so a true symbol is out of the question. However, after putting it off for so long, I had to come up with something. Fortunately, I have a short word in the title and used a online favicon generator to come up with something reasonable. Then not knowing what else to put in all the blank space left over, I added in some symmetrical symbols. Adding it to WordPress was simple.

No, it’s not the best favicon in the world, but it sure beats the default icon that Firefox provides so now when I visit, it feels just a little more like home.