Valiant Hire’s Facebook page url is. Take a look at this half-page ad in my local paper, the Wentworth Courier:
Here’s a close-up:
Wow, check out the Facebook page url. Does Valiant Hire seriously think anyone is going to type that into their browser?
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What is a favicon?
A favicon is short for favourites icon.
It’s a little square icon that appears in the browser’s address bar and on the tabs. You can see my yellow and black favicon for flavius.tv below:
Your favicon will appear in the browser's address bar and tab (both shown above).
Your site’s favicon will also appear in the browser’s bookmarks / favourites menu if someone has bookmarked your site.
Benefits of favicons
A favicon is important because it makes your site look more professional.
It also helps people find your site quickly when they have a bunch of tabs open, or when they’re scanning through their bookmarks.
Without further ado, let’s see how to create a favicon for your site.
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Take the following scenario.
You publish a post on your blog. It gets syndicated via your Feedburner feed. Some of your thousands of subscribers start reading the post in their RSS readers, such as Google Reader or Netvibes.
Then you realise that you made a typo in your post that your spell-checker didn’t pick up! You left the letter “e” off the word “plane” and wrote “plan” instead. Since “plan” is a word, it made it through the spell-check. And your tired eyes didn’t pick up the mistake either.
You log back in to WordPress, fix the typo and republish the post. All’s well and good – or is it?
Your Feedburner feed – with its thousands of subscribers – is still showing the original post with the typo!
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