The Fast and Easy Way to Make FavIcons

I LOVE favicons. Probably in large part because I use firefox and often have upwards of 100 tabs open in two or three windows, favicons are a must have in my opinion. Since many companies still don’t use favicons, creating one is a great way to get that extra bit of recognition.

What is a favicon? Well, if you’re using Firefox, they’re the little pictures that are on each tab (a site that doesn’t have it’s own favicon will have a picture of a blank sheet of paper with the corner bent). On IE, favicons show up on the address bar, and in the favorites menu.

A little while back I found a program that makes it extremely easy to make a favicon. You just select the picture on your computer that you want to turn into a favicon and this program does all the work. I’ve uploaded gifs, jpgs, and pngs so far and all have come out great!