Making your own favorites icon

You’ve probably seen them before, and wanted one yourself. Custom favorite icons are just a cool thing to have. It makes your site stand out in the favorites list - which is always a good thing.

The first step is making a 16×16 square image. For CLiX Network I used Adobe Photoshop and just cropped and resized my current logo.

There is no need to worry about details - with an image this size you don’t really notice the lack of details. If you look at our icon, you’ll easily notice its the same logo - even though its kind of blurry from being resized.

The next step is to convert your image to an icon file. I used IrfanView, because thats my favorite program to use. It doesn’t really matter what program you use, as long as you convert it to an icon (.ico) file. Make sure you name it “favicon.ico”.

If you want to download IrfanView, click here.

Once you’ve uploaded your icon to the root directory (/public_html/ or /www/), browsers should begin noticing the icon automatically. And when bookmarked browsers that support it will show the icon in the list!