I created davidvs.net in the middle of 2008. This was long before I started using Facebook in March of 2009, so in my mind one purpose of my website was to help old friends I had lost touch with find me online. Although I did not want my website to pridefully shout "look at me!" I did want it to say "this is the David you were looking for".
Not sure what else to do, I used a shrunk version of that picture of myself as the favicon. Although I did not like to emphasize myself, the tiny picture was not really recognizable, so I let it be. You can see it in the tab bar of this screenshot.
A couple weeks ago I had a better idea. Way back when I was at UCSB as a math graduate student and also rewriting the UCSB Math for Elementary School Teachers class to match then-current State Framework, I designed a pretty pattern block design while at one of Phyllis Chinn's PROMPT conferences.
I could use this design, or perhaps one I liked more. I played around with my pattern blocks and could not make anything I liked better. I took a photograph of my three favorites with that same overall shape. The one on the left is nice but slightly too busy. The central design is too symmetrical, like a science fiction naval logo.
So yesterday I made that oldest design into that svg file, and then as best I could into an icon. The shapes get very distorted when shrinking the entire arrangement to fit a 16 by 16 pixel grid.
But that idea for an icon did not even last a day! While falling asleep last night, I thought of an even better idea.
A favicon is an ideal place to put BS"D. Sure, it will confuse people. But an unrecognizable tiny image did too, so my website is no worse off.
So this morning I used an online favicon generator and made a new icon.
Ta da! Now my website gives God credit for his inspiration.
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