Jonathan Snook has a great post on Making a Good Favicon. Favicons are those small icons that appear in your browsers address bar, tab bar and next to bookmarked web pages.

Fizbang Web Design will help you Improve Your Logo with a few simple tips, then shows how some major corporations have improved their logos by following many of his suggestions!

I work with a colleague who has an excellent background in print design, so I’m very lucky to have a great resource sitting in the same room. However, if you’re a web designer with little print experience and not lucky enough to have access to a print designer, you should check out Mark Boulton’s excellent Web designer’s guide to print design series.

Another advent calendar worth reading is 24 ways. Again a post every day from December 1 to December 24 except this calendar post totally awesome general web development tutorials.

Richard Ziade has posted a good article that looks at Why We Love Rounded Corners?. He has some great theories, but my favorite comes from the comments…

As children we discover sharp corners hurt, so we quickly learn to avoid them and develop a preference for smoother, rounder corners.

Microsoft has just released a new Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP that is available as a free download. Using the Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet, you can:

• Install and uninstall ICC color profiles
• Inspect, rename, and compare two different color profiles
• View a 3D graphics plot of color profile color gamuts
• Associate color profiles with devices such as printers, monitors, and scanners
• Apply custom color gamut adjustments to one or more displays “on the fly”
• Set up display calibration reminders at intervals you specify

Most of this means nothing to me, but for those of you who are kick-ass designers, the tool may be very useful!