Favicon (Favourite Icon) is the small image displayed on the left side of the browser address bar and bookmarks list. When you type www.google.com in the address bar, you can see the small image [G] in the address bar. This image is favicon Icon.
In this post i will show how to create a favicon in 3 simple steps.
Simple Steps to create favicon icon
- Create a 16×16 image with any photo editing tool and name the image as favicon.ico
- Upload the image to the root directory of your server.
- In the default page of your website you need to add the following code in head section.
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”/>
Now upload the the web page and favicon to the root directory, then when you type your domain in browser, you can see the favicon in the address bar.
We can also create the favicon using the Free online favicon generator tool. Here is a short list of free online favicon generators.
- www.favicon.com
- www.freefavicon.com
- tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
- www.favicon.cc
- www.degraeve.com/favicon/
- www.favicongenerator.com/
The above list is very short list of favicon generator. Most of the website designers are using the favicon icon to show the brand of the company.
