I remember what a pain this was the first time, and the next to last time, where I hadn’t done it in years. Today I found a site that will generate one for free and tells you how to use it. Must have bookmark: DeGraeve.com Favicon Generator.

03/16/2022: An alert reader sent this yesterday:

Hello there ,
I was using the favicon generator tool you mentioned on your page here: theitsolutionist.com/2009/05/25/favicon-generator/
While degraeve.com does a good job, it only allows you to create favicons from pictures that are up to 2 MB in size.
After some exploring I found this other tool and I wanted to suggest you show it along that one.
https://www.websiteplanet.com/webtools/favicon-generator/
this tool allows you to create favicons from pictures that are up to 5 MB from either JPG, PNG or GIF or even from a gallery!
In hope I helped back,
Nina

When I asked her to post it in the comments, her reply was:

Thank you, for being so receptive and for emailing me back But I rather not add my message with a link on comments as not many people think they are trustworthy( I got a virus after I followed a link on a comment) and I know that in some cases it is also used for spam. I think it will be more useful to your users as a link.

Please let me know if you share it, I would love to check it out?
Keep the great work on your page!

Best,

Nina

Thanks, Nina!

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