I was contacted recently by a graphic design blog reader David Beastall from http://www.davidbeastall.co.uk who told me that although he liked my blog, why didn’t I have a favicon? He pointed out that it would be useful as he currently had my site bookmarked but there was no icon to make that bookmark easily recognisable. This is what he showed me
I have to admit I didn’t actually know how to make a Favicon (oh the shame 
) So after a bit of googling I found a free bit of software for the mac called icomaker which let you easily make one.
Create your icon – for a URL favicon it should be 16px x 16px, you can do this in something like photoshop, gimp (free downloadable photo manipulation software) or picnik (free online image editing software).
You then open up the icomaker software and click on the size and type of image you are using then go to include image.
After this just save as “favicon” and it will save it as an “.ico” (the thing you need to make the URL icon). You then can upload the favicon.ico your sites root directory.
To upload it for a Wordpress site you can find full instructions here
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thanx for this info. With it I will be able to personalise my stuff even more.
One other way to generate a favicon is to upload a graphic file to one of the several favicon generators on the web. I use the one at dynamicdrive.com regularly.
Hi Randa,
Thanks for the tip
Great tip. Favicons are very important to stand out from the crowd, and now days it’s pretty easy to make them with different online generators and converters.
I’ll be trying this, although i’ll need someone to design me one now lol.
Thanks for the info
Mark
A Uk photographer
Hi Mark, I am sure you could base it on one of your photos or logo if you have one
Thank you for the tips. I was searching how to create Favicon for blog and I got here. I will create Favicon for my blog now.
Hi Tara, thanks for the useful tip, I use a really cool Photoshop plugin that lets you save a file in the .ICO format that can be used as a favicon, huge timesaver, check it out:
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/
(scroll down to the first blue box!)
Thanks for the tip SJL Design
http://www.favicon.cc/
Thanks Louisa
You can just rename the file extension of a saved .jpeg or .png to .ico and this will also work saving the need for plugins or additional software. It has worked for me
It had not occurred to me before how important the favicon really is. I really used to only see them in the browser url address bar and think that they were a nice touch but after reading your article I realise I need to get myself one as soon as possible! Thanks for sharing this.
Good helpfull tip, is this just for wordpress/blogs or all sites ?
I just wish it was this easy on Windows… Thank you, great post.
Hi Keith
Thanks for your comment. Its for all sites
Great guide. For anyone out there who doesn’t use Favicons its a must. Once your used to including them you can start to get fancy and animate them. Search Favicon Gallery for some great designs
Thanks for the tip adam
Do Favicons have any SEO imporance?
Hi Baaltazar, No I don’t think so, they just make recognisability better and are easier for bookmarking (as I found out
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That makes sense!
I think I’ll make some effort then and create mine. 
I really used to only see them in the browser url address bar and think that they were a nice touch but after reading your article I realise I need to get myself one as soon as possible! Thanks for sharing this.
Appreciate the awesome tips.You would laugh but till date I used to outsource even this stuff, lol. Now I guess I won’t have to.
This is something I really was looking for. Gonna download the free icon tool immediately. Gonna be so great to create icons for my blogs. That makes them more professional. Really great thnx for the tip.