This site is an easy to use on-line favicon generator. Favicons generated here contain text instead of images in order to be descriptive, but are colored to be nice looking. I got the style idea from antipixel buttons and applied it to favicons. Examples: To generate your favicon just type your text below and experiment with different colors. When you are ready yon can save your favicon clicking on Save as favicon file .
Now that you generated your nice favicon you may want to know how to add it in your site following the right standards and rules in order to be sure most users will see it. The following is a quick guide extracted from the Favicon Wikipedia Page .
A favicon (short for "Favorites icon"), also known as a page icon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon, and many graphical web browserssuch as recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, and Konquerorcan then make use of them. Browsers that support favicons may display them in the browser's URL bar, next to the site's name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page's title in a tabbed document interface.