Favicon (pronounced as fav-eye-con ) is the short form of favorites icon. It is a 16 x 16 pixel square icon associated with a website or webpage.

See the cool favicon in front of the blog's url

There are many icon editor software in the net which you can download for free.
You can go www.download.com and download a software called Imagicon. It is very simple to use. Imagicon transforms other format images into .ico format, which is the format of favicon.

You can create favicons in two different sizes 16 x 16 and 32 x 32. But I think 16 x 16 size will be suitable for most of the websites and also readable.

You can also create and generate a favicon online. Some favicon generators provide you free hosting also. Enter “Online favicon generators” in Google Search and you will find many links for it.

You can try this website http://www.iconj.com/icon_generator.php
It allows you to generate and host also.

No registration is required for this.

Here is a screenshot of this website below.

First upload the image (should be less than 1MB)

And you will get the favicon with the extension .ico.

You can download that and host it in your web server or you can host it in iconj.com itself.

The link will be similar to this :

<link rel="shortcuticon" href="http://www.iconj.com/ico/1/x/1xb6dq1ml3.ico">

You have to simply copy and paste the code above in the head of your web pages.

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