How to make a Favicon

What is favicon??
see in the image. You can see the F symbol at the left part of the address bar and the URL is http://www.facebook.com This is the favicon of facebook. You can also add a icon as you website's favicon.

A favicon should be 16 X 16 pixels with 16 colors and the file name should be favicon.ico. There are many tools and software for creating favicon. I am posting some online tools for that


www.favicon.cc http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
http://favicon-generator.org/


Once you have created your favicon.ico file you should upload it to your website. Just make sure you place it in the root directory, which is the directory where the index file is located.


Now add this code in head part of your web pages<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />


Now open your website in browser and check for your favicon