A favicon is a tiny image which appears in your browsers next to the URL. Most popular and professional websites will have one, Yahoo.com has a bold red Y with the exclamation point next to it, just to show a quick example. This article will explain the simple step-by-step process to create a favicon for your website.
First you'll need to choose one of your images to use, it's best to use something simple and highly contrasting, like one or two colors on a white background. If you're using your company's existing logo, it will need to be cropped first so that the width and height are equal. The favicon will need to be 16 x 16 pixels in size, so it's easiest to first create it in a small size like 60 x 60 or 100 x 100 and then resize it to the necessary 16 x1 6 pixel size.
If you have trouble or don't know how to edit or resize your image to the favicon size. Just Google favicon generator or go to favicongenerator.com. Use the browse function on the page, find your image that you're going to use and then press the generate favicon button and it will be instantly generated for you and the extension is even changed to .ICO which you would need to do if you are creating your own manually.
Next double check that your new icon is named favicon.ico. Then upload it to your websites root directory. And then copy the following code and paste it into the head section of your webpages:
<link href="favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon"/>
Now you can go to your webpage and test it out, you may need to refresh the page to view your new favicon.
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