Make Your Own Favicon With Favicon Generator
Favicon is a small icon which appears at the beginning of the address bar, whenever you input the URL of a particular website. Of course the website must have such favicon installed, so that you can notice it. It is definitely an interesting way to make your blog look different than the other sites. Think how important it can be in your website’s branding strategy. When others bookmark your blog and store it among other ones, it will be easier for them to find your blog, just because of your favicon. Make your marketing blog or personal blog different than the other ones!
It might be interesting for you to find out how to set it up.
Here is my step by step guide how to do it.
Before you start you need to have a .jpg image prepared, which will be changed into a fav icon. Use Photoshop, Paint or other similar software to make such images. There are many places on the web, where you can buy images, always remember, however, to read their licence agreement before using their image. You are not allowed to use any images which represent brands of existing companies, like facebook for example. Finally you can always hire someone to make such image for you.
Assuming you’ve got such an image – let’s get to the next steps.
1. First of all you have to make sure that the size of your image is no bigger than 150 kb, reduce it to a smaller size if it’s bigger.
2. Now go to free online software program, by searching for the keyword Favicon Generator and upload your image.
3. Hit the button “Create Icon” and your favicon is ready to be downloaded to your computer.
4. Let’s get to the installation process:
- you can either install a wordpress FREE plugin created by MaxBlogPress
- or you can do it on your own, which I recommend. Why? It’s not the best solution to install too many plugins as they slow down your blog.. Too many wordpress plugins can cause conflits as well. So, what you need to do, is to upload your fav icon to the “public_html” folder on your server.
5. The next thing to do is to put a special code in the head section of your website. You need to put it in the header.php file of your blog and save it after that. The code is given on the Favicon Generator website.
6. In the end after refreshing your website the favicon should appear in the address bar. In some cases it may however take a bit longer. It’s worth, however, waiting.
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