Welcome to the last Toolsday for April. Spring is here and it’s time to get organized. I’ve been doing a lot to enhance my site now that I’m firmly cemented in WordPress and I found a super handy tool for one of the most elusive website features for beginning webmasters - the favicon.
Google defines a Favicon as a small icon that is used by some browsers to identify a bookmarked Web site. In layman’s terms, this is the little icon that shows up in your address bar to the left of the URL and in your Favorites or Bookmarks menu beside the website name. Dynamic Drive offers half a dozen really useful tools on their website, but my favorite has got to be their super easy to use Favicon Generator.
Regular image editing software won’t create icons, or .ico, files, something that’s always irritated me. But this handy online tool will take any gif, jpg, png, or bmp file and shrink & convert it into an ico file. Then you just download the file and follow the directions on the page to add the favicon to your website.
For those of you using WordPress, these instructions aren’t quite accurate, so when I used it I did have to do a bit of searching. I found these really easy instructions from the WordPress Codex area. Remember that favicons are another form of branding your website, so using your logo or a slight variation is the most logical step (just take a look at sites like Google, Entrecard, & Commission Junction to see good examples). So take a look, decide on an image, and make your website stand out just a bit more with a unique favicon!
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May 1, 2008 at 7:54 pm
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