Free Favicon Maker

If you have a website (and if you haven't by now then shame on you) for your business then it's a good idea to create a favicon for it.

A favicon is an image usually with a filename of favicon.ico. A favicon is a small, 16x16 image that is shown inside the browser's location bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up. It is a good way to brand your site and increase it's prominence in your visitor's bookmark menu.

You can create favicons using dedicated software or you can create it for free using an online tool such as Dynamic Drives Favicon Generator Tool. You will firstly need to create an image in GIF, JPG, PNG, or BMP formats. Then simply upload it and then save the finished result. Upload the Favicon.ico to your root folder and you are done. Now everytime someone bookmarks the page it will display this image next to your description of the page thus making it easier to find than just text.

Another benefit of uploading a favicon to your site is to reduce your server failures. When a request is made to the server and it fails it obviously puts more strain on your server; favicon.ico is requested plenty of the time by robots crawling your site and obviously by humans wanting to bookmark your page as well as in the address bar of modern browsers.

Modern browsers also allow favicons to be created in different file format such as PNG, GIF, animated GIF's, JPEG, PNG and SVG as well as different sizes such as 16x16, 32x32 or 48x48 and either 8-bit, 24-bit, or 32-bit in color depth.

You should also link to the icon in your meta tags like so:

favicon.ico is the default which you don't need to link too, all browsers support favicon.ico format so you only need this if you create your icon in a different format...although you should always upload favicon.ico for browsers that don't support an alternative format.