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yep you have to add your site to google's rankings (the link above)use several meta tags to help your site. for example using the tag "<meta name="Revisit-After" content="10 Days">" will get google to revisit and update your page every 10 days. this is useful if you have a popular site that gets updated content very frequently. Here's a list of several other meta tags:<meta name="Author" content=""><meta name="description" content=""><meta name="abstract" content=""><meta name="keywords" content=""><meta name="Publisher" content=""><meta name="copyright" content=""><meta name="Publisher-Email" content=""><meta name="ROBOTS" content=""><meta name="audience" content="">hope this helps

try using Photoshop, and download some decent brushes at deviantART.com

logo's dont usually have backgrounds like that, its quite boring to look at.

Actually the Netscape and Firefox browsers will show a favicon as well.  And when you first replace a favicon Firefox will add it immediately, whereas Internet Explorer won't because it it showing what is cached, so you will need to clear it before Intenet Explorer will show the change. If you make the page a favorite it will show up in the favorites folder.

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there are also a few helpful tutorials regarding favicon creation here http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

hope this helps