Comments on: Animated Favicon – Who Knew?

By: Joneandtang

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By: homeopetanxiety

homeopetanxiety — Sat, 29 May 2010 08:14:14 +0000

I have just launched a concept with animated favicons. I've created six animated favicons (different favicons for different tabs/ares), integrated with my (own) personal brand strategy.

By: Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:23:42 +0000

David, I think the animated favicons are cool so I created one on only one page of my website to test it with a pretty cool long animation...

http://www.yellowseo.com/link_building_services/

Tell me what you think

By: Singapore Property

Singapore Property — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:23:39 +0000

Hey that's cool!I thought it's difficult to to do!Thanks.I shall try it out.By the way, Do you design your own favicon?

By: Don

Don — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:33:31 +0000

Wow, I've never thought of an animated favicon, that is a great idea! I'm going to have to look into that.

By: Erwin

Erwin — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:01:33 +0000

You can also consider just to store the favicon.ico in your root. Then you don't even need HTML.

I actually believe it is not simply about the technology. Creating a favicon is not to difficult and there are millions of good-favicons generators out there. The question is: how to design an animated favicon that contributes to the visitors-experience instead of irritates?

I think I've made an attempt to find a solution. I have just launched a concept with animated favicons. I've created six animated favicons (different favicons for different tabs/ares), integrated with my (own) personal brand strategy. That implies that my face is shown, including attributes. On opening a page (or bookmarks) they are standing still, actually 80% of the time. After a little while, a sometimes funny, movie is played in the favicon.

Here's the site and a posting with lots of background info:
http://www.erwinvanlun.com/ww/full/animated_fav...

For the next step I consider let the favicon 'play' with the title or starting a sound. That would be great. But it should all be very subtle, as lots of animated favicons will soon irritate.

I'm interested in what you think!

By: Irritated User

Irritated User — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:49:51 +0000

PLEASE do NOT use animated favicons! This is incredibly annoying for your users and will just make them go to another site!

PLEASE NOTE animated favicons ALSO animate in the UI tab in FireFox and this is HUGELY distracting and annoying.

It will make users target your site as an annoying site to close immediately.

Please Please use common sense, do NOT use them.