Your favicon is that little icon that shows up beside your website in the search bar or in the bookmark where it shows a little graphic or letter rather than just being blank.

So now that you know what I mean, how exactly do you make one of these things.

Well you can make a simple graphic in any program that will save a PNG. Like fireworks, photoshop, digital image studio, etc. most graphics programs. Make your image a square. 16×16 is the size that you will be doing on your icon so don’t try to get too elaborate here. A basic small graphic with not too many colors. Maybe try scaling it down to that size in your PNG so you can see how much detail you will lose. Keep is SIMPLE!! Keep your colors simple too, 4 color will have less load time than anything more so keep it simple to save on load time and to prevent it from just looking like a blob.

Once you have your PNG file. You will need to find a software to convert it to .ICO type. This is not a graphical type but a windows type of file. There are many softwares and plugins that do this, some free, others not. PNG2ICO is a nice inexpensive software but it requires you to do some work at the Run Prompt so be sure you know what you are doing and follow all the instructions on that software before you start.

Image Icon Converter is another software and does not require you to be quite so computer savvy but the results are really basic. So, making a VERY simple piece of art in the first place is critical!!!

Remember if you have a question, you can e-mail us. And if you don’t know what you are doing, LEAVE IT ALONE!!! This will not make or break your website if you don’t have it!!