Update May 30, 2016

Please read this tutorial and click the 'Like This' button (if you do). It will give you a heap of information on how we used to create favicons.

WordPress has made it a whole lot easier to make favicons now. You'll find my newer instructions at

WordPress Favicons

What is a Favicon?

Whenever you use your favorite browser you may notice a tiny graphic at the left-hand side of each tab you have open. Sometimes it looks like a piece of paper with one corner folded but most of the time it's a small picture which represents the website you have open in the tab. All Favicons are square and most have some transparency. Originally Favicons were 16x16 pixels but now browsers support 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 or 64x64 pixels and 8-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit color depth. See wikipedia for a detailed explanation and history of Favicons.

Some of my favicons are shown in the image below:

You will be familiar with WA's Favicons. The Favicon visible on all WA pages is the blue 'WA' logo and on SiteRubix domains and subdomains you'll see a blue and red Favicon. If you have a top level domain (.com, .net, .org) hosted at WA or elsewhere you can have your very own Favicon.

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