Always useful for making empty pages look right when designing a new site (avoiding the content area being only as high as the content within it), min-height has always worked will in Firefox but been completely ignored by IE.
Behold, a wonderful IE min-height hack: www.dustindiaz.com/min-height-fast-hack
Instead of having to strip down the default Wordpress theme, with all its custom classes, simply install one of the following templates:
I’d personally recommend the Starkers theme, as it is completely naked of styling, and therefore perfect for quickly developing your own custom template. Thematic, whilst clinically designed, still carries a number of custom classes that will need to be removed.
The advantage these templates have over the Classic Wordpress theme, is that they incorporate the functionality of sidebar widgets that did not exist when the original theme was developed.
Use http://www.icoconverter.com/ to convert a 16×16 image to icon.
Here is the code to add to website.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />