Wait… fav-what?

A favicon is simply the small icon attached to most websites that shows up in your browser’s navigation bar or bookmarks list. They can really help to back up the branding of a website.

Considering favicons are so widely used it is quite surprising that top of the line graphics packages such as Photoshop do no support this format. There are patches available, but there is also a fast and free alternative to creating favicons on the web.

The “Favicon from Pics” software at HTML Kits website lets you upload any picture in a common image format such as GIF or JPG, and it will create a favicon for you based upon that image. Download the icon package from the HTML Kits website and you are ready to install the favicon on your site.

Adding the icon to a webpage is an incredibly easy task. Firstly, upload the .ico file to the root of your website and then add the following code into the HEAD section of the page you want to add the icon to:

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico”>

Et voila, your favicon will be visible to the world!