What's Favicon And How To Make And Install Favicon On Your Blog Or Website?

What's Favicon And How To Make And Install Favicon On Your Blog Or Website?

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What is "favicon" and how do you make and install a favicon on your website or blog? A favicon (short for favorite icon) which usually appears in the upper left side of your browsers address bar, is a 1616, 3232 or 6464 pixel square image(icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon,or bookmark icon.

A favicon is basically an image that distinguishes a website/company from others. What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you see this image ?... Google of course. You see how easy it is to advertise and embed your brand in people's mind. That's the power of favicon. Simply put, a favicon for your blog or website, is another way to make "you brand"(your website/blog), easily recognizable.



How do you make and install a favicon?
Making a favicon is very easy. It's basically making an image that you like in mentioned(above) sizes and saving it as a "ico" file. There are many free favicon generators online, like dynamicdrive.com or animatedfavicon.com . Also, if you already have any kind of Image editing software like GIMP, PhotoPlus,...you can use their built in favicon generator to make a favicon. Here is a step by step instruction on how to make a favicon and install it on your wordpress blog or any kind of blog or website for that matter.



1. Use your image editing software or any favicon generator to make a favicon.

2. Save your favicon as favicon.ico

3. Upload the favicon image to your public_html folder, in case of word press upload it to "public_html/wp-content/themes/my-theme-name/".

4. ( word press/blog) Go to your word press Admin Dashboard. navigate to Design/Theme Editor/Header (header.php) , and insert this line of code


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