Over the past couple of days I have been busy upgrading the swimchat forum to the latest version of SMF 2.0 RC1 This is a huge update and step forward from what was already probably the best free forum software available on the net.

For those of you that don’t know SwimChat.co.uk is one of my first sites that I put together. There have been a few members that signed up and posted a few times, this happened when the main uk swimming forum closed for a period (oh how I wish it never came back! haha).
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Its probably of of the most overlooked parts when designing a favicon, its not part of the webpage itself, but if you look at the address bar, your see a wee square that looks like , that is the favicon for this site. I tend to think sites with favicons do better because they appear to be more thought through and complete. Thats why today i’m adding Favicons to a few of my sites, also going to be keeping a track of the bounce rate.Its going to be interesting to see if the bounce rate is at all affected by having such a small addition to the design.

In addition to appearing next to the URL in the adress bar, if you bookmark a site which has a favicon, then the favicon appears next to the site in your bookmark list (not sure if this happens in every browser)

Heres the list of Favicons I am trying out (will be updated when i make them)

After recent Google PR Updates, I decided to check what my domains pageranks are. I have just listed the ones with a PR over 0.

PR2 - Fajja.co.uk

PR1 - Simple-Travel.net

PR1 - Bwav.co.uk

Just saw someone mentioning how their clients website had gone up in Google’s Pagerank ( a measure of how important a site is on a scale of 1 to 10) So I thoguht I’d check mine.

As you can imagine I was very pleased to see that this site has gone from a PR1 to a PR2

I will check my other sites and post anything noteworthy soon.