A favicon is short for favorite icon, which is also known as the website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon. It is a small, 16×16 pixel square icon that you could see in the browser’s address bar and next to a page’s name in a list of bookmarks.
There are various ways you could create your favorite icon and favicon.cc will help you achieve that quite easily.
This site will allow you to draw your own icon, with or without animation and even import an existing image that you could further edit to suit your requirements. Preview the favicon in the ‘Preview’ window or in the address bar of this site and once you think you’re done, download it or even publish it under an open license.
How does it work?
- Choose a color or colors you wish to use.
- Click on the squares and paint your logo as desired.
- Use animation if necessary
- Preview your favicon
- Download when done
- Put the favicon.ico file into your webserver directory
- Optionally publish it under the CC (Creative Commons) license
Hope you enjoy creating your very own favicon!
Link: favicon.cc
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Also add my 2 cent to this post
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
This will help you to easily make favicon.
Those who afre unfamiliar with how to display favico on wordpress, simple upload your favicon.ico on the root of your wordpress blog.
Or you can use wordpress favico plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maxblogpress-favicon/
@ Harsh Agrawal,
This is very good information. Thanks for sharing.
Nice post but where’s the Favicon of Devilsworkshop???? 😀
@ Sauravjit Singh,
lol, now that’s a very good question my friend 😛
I think rahul forget to upload the favicon after installing wordpress MU 😛
@Harsh
I am aware of this issue. Will fix this soon.
…and it’s fixed 🙂 🙂
Interrrrrrrrrresting, but whose got the time?
@ Hash
Its very important, atleast for branding purpose.
any other way ???
I think this pixel by pixel thing puts limit to creativity…
@ Deepesh Sodhi,
It does, indeed.
To answer your question, I have just written a new post – “Now create your own favicon without using favicon.cc”. Hope it helps 🙂
I’m using another great tool:
Faviconer
You can draw an .ico file or import any graphic image and convert it automatically.