Favicons, KFC Dinner, and my new pet project!

23 Sep

Posted by Ron as Design, Life, Ron Del Rosario

favicon

Every website needs to have it’s distinct identifier that would make it stand out on the InterWebs. Thoseﾂunique distinctions manifest in many forms. They can be in the form of flashy banners, a unique catch phrase, and my favorite – the favicon. Favicons are the small icons (16×16 pixels small) you see on your browsers tabs, near the site URL in the address bar, and the bookmark icons. I love favicons because of the fact that they give you a sense of accomplishment and that you are willing to go the extra mile for your website by personally crafting the favicon and uploading the little bugger to your site.

Creating a favicon is easy. For the artistically inclined – fire up Photoshop and let you imagination go wild, but limit the size to 150Kb. Why? Because your going to upload it to Dynamic Drive’s favicon generator, that’s why! The favicon generator automatically generates a 16×16 px .ico for you from your uploaded image! For those who aren’t so artsy fartsy, that’s no problem either, just stick to simple images and you’ll be fine. I for one suck at creating stuff that end with .bmp, .png, and .jpg. But of course there are great tools available to help you create icons. I useﾂAxialis IconWorkshop because it’s just plain sexy.ﾂﾂThe next step would be to insert the icon by inserting this code snippet to your <head> tag:ﾂ<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”/site/favicon.ico”>.ﾂYou can check out the favicon I made by simply waiting for this page to completely finish loading and check out the areas I cited earlier.

My KFC dinner, screw the diet for now!

kfc

I couldn’t help but stuff myself with chicken from KFC! My proposed diet can wait! Har har har! Ironic, just when I was finally going to start with my 6 week hundred pushup exercise regime!

New Pet Project

Earlier this morning, ﾂI was racking my brain for solution to my worthless dilemma. I couldn’t decide on a programming language to finally adopt as my main language. Yeah, geeky blah. After much brain racking, I’ve decided to go with PHP… Sorry ASP.NET/C#… Developing in MS technology is a breeze. Absolutely no doubt there. It’s just that deploying and actually owning the professional tools needed for smooth operation isn’t exactly too wallet friendly. So PHP with the CodeIgniter framework it is!
php, codeigniter
My pet project would be one of my old freelance projects made with ASP.NET and C#. It’s something like Investopedia’s stock market game but obviouly much simpler. I loaded the skeleton in this site’s subdomain. You can visit it here Pet Project. Watch for it’s developments! I hope that all goes well with my learning and I pray to God that I don’t procrastinate and get uber lazy while doing so!