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You look different from the person next to you and the person next to him or her. Following along the same lines, don’t you want your logo to be different and unique from the rest of the crowd? Countless times I arrive on a website and I see the standard Wordpress or Blogger theme with no unique favicon or logo. On the other end of the spectrum I have seen websites and companies spending hundreds of dollars just to create a logo.

At the start of the Web2.0 craze creating a logo meant designing a branded, colorful, aesthetically pleasing image which is meant to grab the attention of the visitors. But this does not meant throwing more money at the designer. There are hundreds of talented graphics designers out there who are eager to get their work published. You can probably find some of the best designers on sites such as DigitalPoint. One such designer named Adrian was recently featured on CourtneyTuttle.com blog.

Spending money, however, is not an option for many webmasters who are just starting out. If that is the case then either learn Photoshop or Gimp or unearth websites which will automatically generate logos for you. One such site is Logo Creatr which generates some of the best clean logos I have seen. There are other similar websites which generate templates and favicons. Sometime in the future I will collect the various free online logo, favicon, banner and template creating services in to one post. Till then Google what you need and be prepared to spend some time doing research.

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Being a webmaster for a relatively short time I am still amazed by some of the stories out there. These are the things which make you take a second look and rethink your strategy. Often times you will want to try and do things differently so that you don’t come up to Webmasters forum and say “Boy do I have a great story to tell you guys.”

Why am I saying all of this? Because of Scott Hanselman. The favicon he was using managed to use up 27GB bandwidth in a month. Don’t believe me? Initially I thought it was a hoax and a neat Photoshop trick. But it seems he is in a pickle because of it. See the screenshot yourself.

The main thing to take away from his mistake is unless you have money to flush down the toilet never use a pimped out 70KB icon. And even worse, don’t try to justify it ”as I made it a wonderful high-quality “Vista” icon in an attempt to make things pleasant and everything for folks.”