OK, now where’s your favicon?

Itching for that favicon?

Now that you have your uniquely designed logo, it’s time to take care of that favicon. If you actually had your logo designed by a pro, you should be able to ask them to produce a favicon for you at no charge. This is really so simple that even if they don’t offer that service, you should be able to create one yourself.

Just to be clear, a favicon is simply the icon users can associate to your site. Typically, a favicon is just a 16 pixel by 16 pixel little graphic that is saved as a ico file. At a minimum, it appears on the users’ browser tabs, address bars, and favorites lists so it extends your brand image. This can be created from scratch or from an existing image.

Swing by http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon and give it a whirl. It’s a free tool and should only take you a few minutes! Once you’re done, just save that ico file and place it in your server’s folder. You should be able to ftp to your host and drop it in the root directory. That’s all there is to it!

Now, where’s yours?

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At 2010.09.27 16:00, Dennis Edell | Direct Sales Marketing said:

Mines been sitting on my desktop for months, lol. It’ll get up there eventually.
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- At 2010.09.27 21:21, Gabe Young said:
  
  OMG, it’s a simple ftp file load…
  
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At 2010.09.27 17:18, Cebu Tech Blogger said:

haha… I actually used favicon before, but you are reminding me of using it again…
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At 2010.09.27 21:19, Gabe Young said:

If it’s not coming up, it’s possible you have it cached on your browser. A favicon shouldn’t take a long time to load. Try a different browser and see what happens.

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At 2010.09.27 21:21, Gabe Young said:

Anything related to branding just happens to be pure coincidence! In fact, I wouldn’t have realized it if you didn’t point it out.

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At 2010.09.27 22:58, Youtube Movie Maker said:

Is favicon really good? How to improve my site’s logo to more popular?

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At 2010.09.28 01:49, John said:

Favicons are cool – really have taken off with tabbed browsers.
By the way, what do you think of Google’s favicon – I don’t like it too much. Took me some time to figure out what it was

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At 2010.09.28 02:23, Virtual Servers said:

This is interesting! Is this the same as gravatar?

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- At 2010.09.29 01:36, John said:
  
  A gravatar is a graphic that is recognized across websites – it lets blogs and “similar sites display user-provided pictures from a central database.”
  
  A favicon is just a logo for the website.
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At 2010.09.28 13:57, Dave Doolin said:

I have had very good luck with crisp favicons using Inkscape:
1. Set the paper size to 16×16 icon.
2. Draw the logo, whatever, using the vector tools.
3. Export to bitmap.

It seems to get all the aliasing done correctly.

Chami is ok, and so are many of the other online tools, but Inkscape really seems to get it right. And it is a hard problem… I helped write an ebook on favicons!
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- At 2010.09.28 21:43, Gabe Young said:
  
  I think I tried Inkscape before. The thing is, it’s hard to go wrong with using any tool to create a favicon. For me, I had to load my file and make some tweaks to get it to look right.
  
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At 2010.10.01 06:17, wudwan said:

Your posts are always an eye-opener for me. Thanks.

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At 2010.10.01 08:54, Computer IT Support Miami said:

I totally agree with your view that a blog/site with favicon looks more professional. Thanks for the share!

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At 2010.10.03 05:17, Lamp said:

This is interesting! Is this the same as gravatar?I liked reading it

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At 2010.10.06 12:44, Jason @ How to make lots of money fast said:

I had noticed the favicon-thing whenever I would visit established websites. However, I only recently found out what that “logo” thing to the left of the url in the toolbar of the borwsers. Called a “favicon”. Thanks you for your post. I think one really can’t be going “professional” online or at least have such a look without it. I will be following your advice (thanks for showing how) to get my own favicon. Even if it’s not a permanent good one.

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At 2010.10.08 11:02, Vincent Vagabond said:

I love using the .ico plugin for Photoshop for saving the favicons.
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At 2010.10.09 09:11, free xbox 360 said:

Favicon actually improves the appearance of a blog…

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At 2010.10.09 11:45, Reshab @ Free Genuine Softwares said:

Good Post bro, you posted about the old thing like a new one.. I always got a favicon for my sites….
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At 2010.10.10 15:46, wowcast said:

Hey Thank you man! Now my website – http://www.wowcast.de has a favico thx 2 u:P

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At 2010.10.14 10:08, Logosupermarket said:

Although the favicon is only 16px square it adds a sense of legitimacy to a site/blog. I have a little shopping basket on my site and it works really well.

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At 2010.10.16 06:21, wowcast @ world of warcraft cataclysm said:

sweet, now i added some crazy picture at my forum http://www.wowcast.de/forum
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At 2010.10.17 06:45, pre engineered steel buildings said:

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At 2010.10.17 15:57, wowcast @ world of warcraft cataclysm said:

Well big thanks to you sir…again :p
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I want to use that Favicons are cool – really have taken off with tabbed browsers.

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At 2010.10.22 02:04, Carpet Cleaning NY said:

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At 2010.10.29 01:59, bikram said:

I always wanted to created a favicon but is one of those things you always put it off
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At 2010.10.30 17:11, Camper Trailers For Sale said:

I think I will have to make one of these for my blog now. I’ve seen some really well made ones on my journey around different blogs. I like your FavIcon because it is simple but still reminds me of your blog.
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At 2010.11.18 03:52, personality career tests said:

yes dude… i have designed my logo by a pro, can i ask them to produce a favicon at no charge….???
please..i need your kind support…….

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At 2010.11.19 03:43, career personality quiz said:

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At 2010.12.13 01:20, ryan said:

I didn’t even know how to create a favicon! Thanks!
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At 2010.12.30 19:53, Art Kernagis said:

Great article. There’s a lot of useful info. I did want to let you know something though – I am running Redhat with the up-to-date of Firefox and the layout of your blog is kind of funky for me. I can enjoy the articles, but the navigation doesn’t function so great.

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