A Favicon is a little custom icon that appears next to a website's URL in the address bar of a web browser. They also show up in your bookmarked sites, on the tabs in tabbed browsers, and as the icon for Internet shortcuts on your desktop or other folders in Windows. And when I say little, I mean 16 pixels by 16 pixels. So if you like a good design challenge try your hand at this one.

All you need to add a Favicon to your site is a Windows Icon (.ico) file usually called favicon.ico that you upload to the main directory of your website. Nowadays, most browsers besides Internet Explorer can use a GIF (including animated ones) or PNG (including full transparency) instead. But since all browsers including IE understand the .ico format, and because it's got a lot of intriguing features that GIFs and PNGs don't, read on to find out how to make one.

Ouch! Rough week working on the Madison Network of Black Professionals website.

First I had difficulties with a form tool. I spent hours getting it installed because the documentation on the site sucks so bad. All along I thought it was something with the Joomla CMS that wasn't working right... and in the end it turned out to be a permissions issue.

Second, so I get things rolling with the forms and I have the site pretty much the way I want it and then the database craps out on me. I probably shouldn't say the "database crapped out", but the bottomline is that I started over from scratch. I knew it would be quite a bit of work, but I figured I'd get more experience and it would work out. It has, but I have a meeting this Friday morning to demo the site and I've still got a lot of work to do.

Moving forward... I'm going to figure out how to clone or backup the database so that when I have a problem like this again I can simply put the backup database in place and move on.