Favicons and Logos
Monday, January 26th, 2009I’m still picking up tips about blogging and running a website and one thing I learned recently was how, and why, to add a favicon and logo to my site. I decided to post about it with the hope it will help someone else.
What is a Favicon
It’s the little picture beside the web address in your browser.
Highlight Your Brand with a Favicon
What is Favicon.ico and How to Create a Favicon Icon for Your Website
What is a favicon and why should you have a favicon for your website?
Free Favicons
There are all sorts of free icons and favicons out there…
20 Free Favicon Sets
…but I couldn’t find any I liked, so I made my own.
Make Your Own Favicon
First I drew my picture in Paint.net (free) using a 64×64 canvas size. I then resized it to 32×32 for my logo and 16×16 for my favicon.
The favicon has to be an icon file and Paint.net doesn’t have the capabilities to save it in that format so I used Irfanview (also free) to open the 16×16 image and save it as an icon.
If you don’t want to do all that, there are some free online favicon generators you can use to create one:
Dynamic Drive Favicon Generator
Adding Your Favicon and Logo to Your Site
Next, I uploaded my images to my site and added the code. I followed these instructions to add the favicon:
I had a little more trouble adding my logo to the left of my title. The instructions that actually worked for me are here:
Add Your Logo to FTW Themes
I did have to adjust the margins a little and to do that I used the “Edit CSS” function of Web Developer Tools for Firefox, then copied the code into my theme’s style sheet. Firebug can also be used to edit CSS, I just haven’t tried it yet.
Voila!
Let me know what you think. 
Denese
Update
I’ve added some free Christian cross favicons here:
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