How To Generate Your Own Favicon Using Your Favorite Image
- Not a square image
- File size is too large
- Image format not supported etc
But before we proceed there are some format supported image format that will be accepted. Generate your own favorite icon using your favorite image. Image formats that are supported include: GIF, JPG and PNG formats.
Favicon Generation Tips
Keep the graphic simple. You don't have a lot of space to work with, so focus on the most important parts. Complex logos and graphics don't work well so make sure that you use very simple image. First of start with a square image. The favicon will be scaled to be square. If you start with a rectangle it will be distorted.
How To Generate Your Favicon
- Follow this link here
- Then you will be provided with a platform for you to upload your image
- After you have selected your image then upload your image
- Then proceed by generating your favicon
- After your favicon have been generated a pop-up message will show up saying Thank you for using the Free Favicon favicon generator! Your favicon preview is below.
- Click "Download Favicon", download package, unzip it and then open it. Your favicon.ico is located in it.
- Upload the favicon.ico file to your web site root folder (make sure it goes into your root directory where your index page is located) but if you don’t know how to upload favicon to your blogger website follow this steps.
Note: Depending on your ISP and sometimes your system's caching, it may take up to 48 hours to start seeing your new favicon, so don't worry if you don't see it right away!