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Favicons are an important part of any website these days. They are your tiny 16 by 16 identifiers for your brand, your store, your blog or your business. If you are looking for a great tool to help you create the favicon you want to use – give favigen a shot.
What is a favicon? It is that tiny icon you see in most modern browsers, right next to your web address.
Think of it as a visual reminder for the browser of what site you are on. This is really handy when it comes to favicons in tabs, because you can quickly see and think “Oh, there is an ‘m’ there, and it looks like Mitch’s layout – that tab must be where I loaded Mitchelaneous.com”.
Favicon creation is not that hard, as long as you have a good graphic editing program. What you need to remember is keep it 16×16 pixels and name it favicon.ico. Also it will need to be in the root folder for the domain in question – so for example on most Linux-based/cPanel hosting plans for your primary domain name that would be your public_html folder. If it is located somewhere else you can specify a location with these strings in between your <head> and </head> code on your web page:
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="/favicon.ico" />
Going back to the favicon creation, there are several good resource online to help you get this done quickly and easily. Here are some of my favorite favicon generators:
There you can quickly create, edit and download your own personal favicon to use. It cuts some of the work out of the overall chore of getting your favicon ready for public consumption.
What is a favicon? It is that little icon that appears next to your URL in the browser of your choice. This helps you identify the Web site quicker – and also with some browsers, allows you to have an easier time finding specific links in your bookmarks.
How can you make one? Well here are 8 of my favorite free tools for creating the favicon of your dreams:
+ Dynamic Drive’s FavIcon Generator
+ Favicon Generator and Gallery
+ Graphics Guru Favicon Generator
Have another favicon creator that I might have missed? Leave a comment and let us all know about the one you love or hate.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
