What is a Favicon and Why You Need One

Favicons (an abbreviated version of favorites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon are the little icons that show next to bookmarks and in the address bar of most browsers. In our world on online marketing, impressions matter, especially first impressions. In order to make our self hosted blog stand out in the crowd, the use of a picture or logo in the browser is, well, impressive!! It is a good way to brand your site and increase it's prominence in your visitor's bookmark menu.

The typical industry standard size of a favicon is 16x16. There are several ways to generate favicons. The easiest way is to google “favicon generator.” I have included the address of the generator I use in step one. Also, be sure to watch the video at the end of this article for visual instructions.

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1. Go to  http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
2. Click on Browse – select photo or logo from your hard drive.
3. Look it over to see if you like it, if not, choose another one, but if you like it, click on down load.  
4. Then click on “save file” (remember where you save it on your hard drive)
5. Log into the dashboard of your Word Press blog, click on media, add new.
6. Upload the favicon to your library from where you saved it on your hard drive.
7.  Now go back to the favicon generator site and copy the code at the bottom.
8. Go back to your blog dashboard and click on editor under the Appearance tab.
9. On the right, click on “Header” and scroll down until you find </head>
10. Open a blank line right above </head> and paste the code from favicon generator and click “update file."
11. Now go back to your blog dashboard library and click “edit” on the favicon you uploaded. Copy the file URL name.
12. Go back to Appearance, Editor, Header and find the code you pasted earlier. Paste the favicon URL inside the quotation marks ( “ “ )  in the line of code.
13. Click update file and see what happens

Watch the video here: http://workwithclint.com/?p=206