Favicons (favorite icons) are the small images that are associated with a website. It will be displayed on address bar, tabbed browsers and your bookmark list. Therefore, creating an outstanding favicon is particularly important for website branding. The basic guidelines for design a good favicon are “simple” and “unique”.

Here is the simple steps for beginners to set up favicons,

  1. create a favicon (16 x16) for your sites;
  2. upload favicon.ico to root directory;
  3. copy and paste the code to header section;

    <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon” />

  4. reload your sites and finish!

It is more complex if you want the favicons also work well at IE, for more information you might take a look the links at the bottom. And the generators below is selected from almost 50 favicon tools on the web. Simply drop me a message if you have any better suggestions.

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