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Surely you've ever seen a small icon that appears in the address bar of your browser, along with the URL of certain blogs, these little icons are called homebrew, and this is because this small graphic that appears when adding or blog Web page to your favorites. But what is the advantage of using a favicon?. The advantage is that you give a touch of personalization to your blog, you do protrude from the rest besides helping visitors to associate your site with a picture, something that may help to remember. And how does a favicon?. Well, to begin to clarify that there is a favicon is an image file with the extension ICO, you can create with the aid of any image editing application such as MS Paint, Fireworks, GIMP and so on.

There are also some sites that let you "draw" your own icon online and save it to use it. Others let you upload an image that converted to ICO and then you can save it to your hard drive. For me the process easier is to create an image and then go to any of the sites that convert the file into ICO, and you get a figure of better quality compared to an icon created "by hand". Here are some sites to create homebrew.

• Genfavicon
• Converted
• Favicon Generator
• Gen. favicon
• WebscriptLab

With these sites has more than enough, they are all very easy to use and do not have any complications. If you want another suggestion, they can use this site which is to always appeal in case you need an icon. It also offers preview in the browser and can generate up to an animated icon.

Once you have your file ICO only have to add a small line of code to tell the browser to associate that image with his blog, should put the following line in the header of your site, before the closing </ head> .

That's it, now you have an image for your site's URL. If they do not work, leave their doubts in the comments, but they should not have greater problem. If you want to know more about this topic, this post on the blog Performancing is the one.