It’s Never Been Easier to Create a Favicon
Here is a great tool that that makes it super easy to create a favicon.ico file for your website. favikon is a slick little web app that lets you upload any image you like, crop and resize it, then finally export it to a favicon.ico file that you can then place on your website. For those of you not aware of what a favicon is, they are the little icons that appear next to the URL in your location bar. Here are some details on favicons and how to place them on your site.
Nice! I recall it was quite problematic creating favicons in the past as photoshop (or whatever tool I was using) could not export to this format natively. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the GIMP supports saving as .ico files now too.
This has traditionally been a huge pain.
I’ve just been using PNGs, though, which seem to work pretty much everywhere now, right?
Christian