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FavIconBlog is a website dedicated to the FavIcon. This Blog is your single source for information about this small but very important part of every website. Thanks for stopping by!

Feel free to look around and learn about the FavIcon. On this site you can find Tools and Tutorials to help you deploy your own FavIcon. Before you leave be sure to create your own using the FavIcon Generator.

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How to Make a GIF FavIcon ICO using Front Page

By faviconblog on December 29, 2009

Here is a short video tutorial about making a FavIcon. The author uses Front Page to perform this task. He give a short intro and dives right into the creation of a FavIcon.
Enjoy the Video!

A favicon, short for favorite icon, is a very small GIF image that appears in the address bar of an Internet browser and [...]

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Add A Favicon To Improve Your Site’s Appeal

By faviconblog on December 7, 2009

A great quick How to Guide:
If you've ever wanted to add a favicon to your website or blog, here is a step-by-step rundown of how it is accomplished.
STEP ONE: Design your favicon image —
Every favicon icon begins its life as a graphic image and that usually means you will use a graphics program (like Adobe Photoshop or even [...]

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New Free FavIcon Maker at FavIconBlog.com

By faviconblog on October 11, 2009

I have just installed yet another Free FavIcon Generation Program for your use. This one can be found on the web as FavIcon Service Script. It is a no frills icon making program.
It will make:

16×16 favicons
32×32 Icons
48×48 Icons
64×64 full size Desktop Icons

So this program can be used to create desktop icons as well as smaller icons. I see two drawbacks to [...]

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How To Make A Favicon – Free Video

By faviconblog on October 7, 2009

Here is a short video that introduces a great website to try out.
http://www.favicon.cc/
It allows you to make a FavIcon with a real time preview of how it will look. Easy to use and fun to play with. Once you have created your custom favicon, be sure to come back to FavIconBlog to learn how to [...]

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Create a Custom Favorite Icon for Your Site

By faviconblog on October 3, 2009

A good video on how to create a Favorite Icon or Favicon for your website. The author is using Adobe Fireworks as a graphic program, but as he says you can use any graphics program. The important bit is about saving it in the proper format for success.
He then gives a quick tutorial how to create [...]

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