How to Create a Favicon for Your Blog in Under 2 Minutes

  Posted by Robin VDM on Jun 8, 2010 8:33 am

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If you have your own blog, add a little something extra with a custom Favicon.  Don't know what a Favicon is?  Look up at your browser's address bar right now...see the small icon to the left of the better networker url?  That's the Favicon.   Create one for your own blog or website in under two minutes.  

Depending upon your blog theme, you should be able to simply add the Favicon from your Wordpress dashboard.  However, if your theme does not offer that option, simply name your image  "favicon.ico"  (without the quotes) and upload it to your web hosting account in the home root of your account (not in the image folder or any other...so the link would be www.YourDomain.com/favicon.ico  ) Your Favicon will now appear as part of your domain name. Laughing  You may have to clear your cache or refresh your page to see it.   

Your blog theme developer may also have documention on how to add Favicon's to your blog...be sure to check with them as well.  Generally, they should have a FAQ section or a Support forum where that question has been asked before.  If not, send them an email and ask.  Some theme developers make that super easy to add and others do not.

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Very Cool and Very Effective

This is a Great Tip. I will be doing it today with my blogs... Thanks for sharing this powerful tool with everyone
Marty Baker

Marty Baker — Wed, 06/09/2010 - 11:18am

Great tip ...

Robin,

Thanks for this tip. I'll get right on this!

Have a great day,
Susan

Susan Redmon — Wed, 06/09/2010 - 11:41am

Marketing in the browser's address bar!

Great tip Robin! I've used favicons for years on my sites for brand recognition. Under 2 minutes to create, that's the fastest I've seen!

Eric Smith — Wed, 06/09/2010 - 1:35pm

Thanks for sharing that

Thanks Robin for sharing, now I'll have to head over there and see about making one.

Dan Johnson — Wed, 06/09/2010 - 2:49pm

Pretty Nifty!

I always wanted a "Mini Me" for my "Maxi Me" photograph on my Blog. Viola! Here it is!

Jay Couture — Wed, 06/09/2010 - 2:51pm

Niftly Little Ditty!

Wow, I was wondering how folks got those little ditties on their tabs! Now I know - thanks. Very helpful tip.

Al

Al Baker — Wed, 06/09/2010 - 3:20pm

Great Job

Short to the point and great resource

Thanks

Rick

Sensei J. Richa... — Wed, 06/09/2010 - 4:19pm

Really Cool!

Hi Robin,

This is really cool! I'll try that out tonight. I had tried to make a favicon before but somehow it didn't work.

Thanks for sharing!

Have a nice day!

Ilka Flood — Wed, 06/09/2010 - 6:03pm

Great Job!

I have to say best video demo that I'v seen! Great job Robyn!

Timothy Willan — Wed, 06/09/2010 - 7:03pm

Thank You

Hey Robin, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this, what a great idea!

carrielyn (not verified) — Wed, 06/09/2010 - 7:37pm

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Dinesh Malshe — Thu, 06/10/2010 - 8:21am

Awesome Video!

Hi Robin, Your tutorial on creating a Favicon is fantastic! You showed us how simple the process can be!

Jim Jinright — Thu, 06/10/2010 - 11:53am

You learn something new every day, something useful every week!

Thanks Ladies....Those caught my eye the other day and I was wondering how to get one onto my sites as well. I just spent a little time and now have one at my site http://TheDavidGardner.com thanks to you!

Great Job!

Dave Gardner

David Gardner — Thu, 06/10/2010 - 3:45pm

Not relavent to the Favicon

Hi Dinesh!

Did you mean to post this message elsewhere. This does not realy fit in with the video blog post for Favicons.

David Gardner — Thu, 06/10/2010 - 3:47pm

Thanks for the Compliments...

Thanks so much for the kind words.... so glad you all found it helpful. We will be putting a second video up shortly about how to upload it to your site. We've had a number of questions about that and we thought perhaps a video tutorial on uploading would help.... :-)

@ Dave Gardner.... checked out your favicon... cool! And, nice looking site as well!

Robin VDM — Thu, 06/10/2010 - 4:27pm

Very nice

This is pretty cool. Nice added touch to my blog...Thanks for the tip.

Tony

Tony Aponte — Thu, 06/10/2010 - 10:58pm

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing! I did this while watching the video and it was so quick and easy. Very cool --- and you're website is great with even more cool tips. Very much appreciated!!!

Cindi Houtz — Fri, 06/11/2010 - 7:17am

Great tip for branding

Great tip for branding yourself in your business.

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Chris Brown — Fri, 06/11/2010 - 9:39am

Another uploading tip....

So glad it's been helpful! I wanted to also share a tip we received on the blog from Eddie Espiritu... there are WordPress plug-ins available (he used WordpressMU Favicon ) to help upload those favicons to your WordPress blog if your current theme does not already have a place for that....

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