Huge List of Free Online Favicon Generator Tools

What is Favicon?

Favicon (Favorite Icon) or shortcut icon is just an icon for your website or blog. It is a small image that is displayed on the side of your browser’s address bar, in browser tabs and in the bookmarks menu/list or favorites menu of your browser. Favicon is nothing but a very small image of 16×16 pixels or 32×32 pixels that can be in JPG, GIF or PNG format. The original extension for favicon is .ico which is mostly used for Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers, while most of the modern browsers such as Firefox, Chrome etc. can support favicon in jpg, gif and png image file format also.

Why to Use Favicon for your Websites or Blogs?

It is not compulsory to use favicon but using them has the following advantages:-

1. Your Website looks more professional and trustworthy with the use of favicon.
2. It reflects your Brand or Logo.
3. It also attracts more visitors to your website.
4. It is also easier for users to manage bookmarks because of favicon.

How to Create Favicon in Paint?

You can also create favicon in Windows Paint also by following these steps:-

Launch Microsoft Paint and open your logo image or any other image.

Resize it to 16×16 pixels

Save the image as favicon.png (or .gif, .jpg, .ico)

How to Add Favicon to your Website or Blog?

Upload the Favicon to your website root directory and insert the following code (any one whichever works for you) in the Head section of your index file or the file that renders the main page of your website.

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>

<link rel=”icon” href=”/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>

If your favicon is in other format i.e. png, jpg, gif then you have to use their extensions in the above code e.g. favicon.png

Free Online Tools for Creating Favicon for your Site

Here are some online tools that can be used to generate or create favicon for your website. These online tools are very simple to use, you just upload the image of your website logo or any image that you want and then click on generate ord create favicon button and your favicon will be generated. Download the generated favicon and then upload it your website.

http://favicon-generator.org/

http://onlinefavicon.com/

http://www.favicon.cc/

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

http://www.favicon.co.uk/

http://www.favicongenerator.com/

http://favicon.htmlkit.com/favicon/

http://www.genfavicon.com/

http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/

http://realfavicongenerator.net/

http://www.prodraw.net/online-tool/favicon-generator.php

http://www.webscriptlab.com/favicongenerator.php

http://iconifier.net/

http://www.freefavicon.com/

http://www.favikon.com/

http://www.icoconverter.com/

http://favigen.com/

http://www.generateit.net/favicon/index.php

http://www.favicomatic.com/

http://convertico.org/

http://www.consultsarath.com/public-utilities/high-quality-online-favicon-generator.aspx

http://www.seo-mind.com/favicon-generator/

http://www.animatedfavicon.com/

http://faviconit.com/en

http://www.faviconr.com/

http://faviconsgenerator.com/

http://www.favicon-generator.de/?lang=en-US

http://iconogen.com/

http://www.pic2icon.com/website_favicon_generator.php

http://tools.seochat.com/tools/favicon-tool/

http://favicon.redpixart.com/

http://codoba.net/subpixel/

http://www.easyfavicon.com/

http://www.256pixels.com/

http://onlinehtmltools.com/favicon-generator/#sthash.nJUwyfYd.dpbs

http://www.fav-icons.com/