In recent years favicons have become much more prevalent on websites both big and small, but still not every webmaster has put one on their website. Below we explain why having a favicon is a good idea.

  • Brand Awareness: Just like the golden arches for Mcdonalds, people will associate your favicon with you. Its another chance to get your branding out.
  • Bookmarking: Your site will stand out when your visitors bookmark you because your icon will be next to it, instead of the ugly default icon.
  • Make Your Site Stand Out with Multiple Tabs: Your visitors will be easily able to find your website again when they have multiple tabs open.
  • RSS Feeds: Your feed will stand out among all the others when your visitors see a favicon next to it.
  • Its easy: A favicon can be completed in less than 5 minutes.

If you already have an image created, you can easily convert it into favicon format with this little tool from Dynamic Drive.

Once your done with your favicon, simply upload it to your public html directory as favicon.ico and you’re done!

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