Why Use A Favicon And How To Make One

This blog tutorial teaches you on how to create and set up your own Favicon.

What Is a Favicon?

Favicon, also known as favorite icon, page icon, urlicon and website icon is an icon that is associate to a particular website. They are located just before the URL of a website you’re browsing. Browsers that support favicon may display them in the browser’s URL bar, next to the site’s name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page’s title in a tabbed document interface. Some operating systems, like Windows, will also often use the favicon for Internet shortcuts to sites placed on the desktop or in other directories.

As Favicon is becoming more popular among webmasters, more and more internet browsers are now supporting its use.

Why Use a Favicon?

There are many reasons why you should use a favicon on your websites but I will name the three most important.

Favicon can be used for branding purpose. - Branding, which is an important element of blogging, should be a part of your marketing strategies. Through the simple use of a Favicon, you are able to brand your website and improve its recognition.
Favicon enhances the look and feel of your website. - Most webmasters these days use Favicons not only for branding purposes but as a means of enhancing the look and feel of their websites. Since Favicon is easy to create and use, why should you deprive your website of this feature?
Yes. Favicon is easy to set up and it’s FREE! - You don’t have to pay for anything. All you need is sometime to create and put it in your website. The processes involved is as easy as 123.

How To Make and Use a Favicon?

Like I said awhile ago, making and using a favicon is as easy as 123. Here are the three things you need to do.

First, you need to choose an image you want to use as your favicon. Use any of these tools to compress and resize for use as a favicon.ico. Just upload your image and the tools will automatically convert it to Favicon. [Dynamic Drive, Favicon Generator, Degraeve and Favicon Genertor]
When your Favicon is ready, upload it to your image gallery or host it for free at FileDen (requires registration).
Lastly, add the Favicon to your web page by uploading favicon.ico to the root of your website and inserting the following HTML tag between the <head> … </head> tags of your web page.
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”Replace This With the URL of your Favicon”>

When you’re done with the above steps, refresh your browser. Your Favicon should have appeared by now. If you’re having trouble setting up your Favicon, just drop me a message or leave a comment to this post.

Thank you for your time and your comments are most welcome.