Create a Favicon the Easy Way
Favicons, the small pictures that appear next to a site’s URL in a visitor’s browser, are an important part of Web site branding. Google has a multi-colored G. Facebook has a blue F. Even Microsoft uses a dark blue M.
Creating a Favicon for your Web site is fairly easy, especially with a tool like Favigen. Previously, we wrote about how you could create a FavIcon using a website called Dynamic Drive, but we like Favigen better.
To quickly create a Favicon, go to the Favigen homepage and click Choose Image. Upload your site’s logo. If your logo is especially large, crop the logo to just a picture or the first letter with a graphic editor before uploading.
Next, choose how big you want the favicon. Most browsers use 16 pixel favicons, but most will also resize bigger favicons to fit the space allotted.
Click the big, brown Create Favicon button to create your favicon.
Almost instantly, the new favicon appears. Click the Download Favicon button to save it.
For your favicon to work with your Web site, you must name it favicon.ico and upload it to your Web site’s root directory. Then, add the following code to the tag on your pages:
Favigen is a quick way to size and save a favicon in the right format, which is ideal for Web novices wanting to add to their branding. For the more tech-savvy among us, we could do the same exact thing in about the same amount of time with a graphic editor.
Creating a Favicon for your Web site is fairly easy, especially with a tool like Favigen. Previously, we wrote about how you could create a FavIcon using a website called Dynamic Drive, but we like Favigen better.
To quickly create a Favicon, go to the Favigen homepage and click Choose Image. Upload your site’s logo. If your logo is especially large, crop the logo to just a picture or the first letter with a graphic editor before uploading.
Next, choose how big you want the favicon. Most browsers use 16 pixel favicons, but most will also resize bigger favicons to fit the space allotted.
Click the big, brown Create Favicon button to create your favicon.
Almost instantly, the new favicon appears. Click the Download Favicon button to save it.
For your favicon to work with your Web site, you must name it favicon.ico and upload it to your Web site’s root directory. Then, add the following code to the tag on your pages:
Favigen is a quick way to size and save a favicon in the right format, which is ideal for Web novices wanting to add to their branding. For the more tech-savvy among us, we could do the same exact thing in about the same amount of time with a graphic editor.
