What’s a Favicon and how to Create Your Own Favicon

That little 16×16 image in the address bar left of the URI of some websites is, in case you didn’t, called a Favicon.

Creating favicons is really simple. All you have to do to have your own favicon is create a 16×16 graphic in .gif or .jpg format and change the extension to .ico and place it in the root directory of you web server, the same place where your web site files are stored.

Else you can use favicon.co.uk, a free favicon editor if you’d like to make it a little easier or aren’t familiar with image editors like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.