How to create a Favicon.ico file with in minutes

Favicon’s only means  “favorites” icon. Simply we can say the small icons that you see next to the URL in your browser. Favicon’s are displayed in most of the browsers tab area such as chrome,Firefox etc and  Favicon’s will give a polished  look for your website or blog.Favicons also displayed in service softwares like RSS readers and other bookmarking applications.

 

How to create good-looking favicon for your site ?

 

Step 1: Put your talent and create any custom image  of size 16×16 using softwares like Photoshop,Gimp, Photo Brush or any other.Once you finished your creativity just save this file with png file extension.

 

Step 2 : Now go to faviconr and upload your custom image.

Step 3 : Now click on the generate button below to generate your Favicon.ico file.

 

Step 4  : Now download the application

 

 

You are  done it,Now you need to copy it in to the root directory of  your webserver.once you finished, add below code in head scripts section of your website.

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

How to add favicon in to your WordPress Blog ?

In WordPress you need to add above code in to your header.php file.Make sure you copied your favicon.ico file in your root directory.

If you are using thesis WordPress theme  you can add it in the header scripts section as shown below.

I hope you will got a clear picture,Try faviconr and share your views with us.

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