Create a Favicon With Free Favicon Generators Online

There are so many Free Favicon Generators out there on the Internet. I used some of them to generate my favicons. Then I replaced all of my blogs and website’s default ones with them except for this blog (can’t do anything about it since it is WordPress.com blog). While I was searching around to generate my favicons for my blogs and website, I found countless of them on the Internet and listed them below for your reference (if you are interested in replacing your favicon one day). To be honest with you, I don’t know which one is better. I just found them and listed here. You may have to try them out if you are interested; but I can tell you which ones I have used to generate mine:

• FavIcon Generator – Use this online tool to easily create a favorites icon (favicon) for your site. Capable of generating desktop icons as well.
• favicongenerator – Create free favicon.ico page icons with Favicon Generator, instantly make custom Favicons for your website.
• FavIcon from Pics – Free and easy to use online tool that can create favicon (.ico) images for browser address bars, favorites and tabs, from pictures, logos and other graphics.
• favicon.cc – favicon.cc is a tool to create or download favicon.ico icons, that get displayed in the address bar of every browser.
• freefavicon – Generate a free favicon for your website from an image.
• ^{editor’s pick} Favicon Editor – Make your own favicon with this online editor.
• 256 Pixels.com – 256 Pixels – a daily favicon design challenge.
• ajaxload.info – Ajaxload – Ajax loading gif generator
• ^{editor’s pick} Favicon Generator – Favicons generated here contain text instead of images in order to be descriptive, but are colored to be nice looking.
• Buddy Icon from Pics – Buddy Icon from Pics.
• CoverIcon – Convert ICO to PNG or PNG to ICO with this little web application.
• Favicon Generator – Web script lab, Free and easy to use online tool that can create a favorites icon (favicon.ico) images for browser address bars, favorites and tabs, from pictures, logos and other graphics.
• Favicon Generator and Gallery – Create favicon.ico files to customize the marketing logo in Internet Explorer’s favorites/bookmarks using our free online tool.
• ^{editor’s pick} Favicon Icon Drawing Program Online Free – Draw your own favicon or icon online for free using this entirely, web-based, non-Java icon gnerator.
• GraphicsGuru – Free and easy to use online Favicon Generator tool that can create Firefox-compatiable favicon .ico images.
• Generate It – Free online favicon generator. A favicon is a small, 16×16 image that is shown inside the browser’s location bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up.
• Favicon Generator Tool -A web-based favicon generator that can create custom favicon icons for your website.

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Free Image Hosting for Your Blog?

A lot of bloggers like to have their images hosted in a third party server. Why? There are many reasons; maybe they don’t like the bandwidth they’ve got from their own server; maybe they don’t like the limitations offered by their own server; or maybe they like to save the bandwidth from their own server. Whatever the reason is, it leads us to the conclusion that we want to host our images Free on the third party server. There are plenty of them out there on the Internet. I’ve searched the web, found a handful of them, and listed them below with a table for your reference:

Name	Sign Up	Free	Hot Linking	File Size	Image File Type	Video File Type	Speed & User Difficulty	Deleted If Not Been Accessed	Maximum Bandwidth	Maximum Storage
ImageShack	no	yes	yes	1.5MB	jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tif, tiff, swf	not support	fast & easy	1 yr	100KB per hr	unlimited
TinyPic	no	yes	yes	250KB	jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp, png, tif	avi, mov, mpeg, divx, 3gp, qt, dv	fast & simple	unknown	unknown	unknown
Free Image Hosting.net	no	yes	yes	3MB	gif, jpg, bmp, png,	not support	unknown	60 days keep for ever if registered	unknown	unknown
Photobucket	yes	yes	yes	1MB	gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, swf	3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, 3gpp, 3p, asf, avi, divx, dv, dvx, flv, gif, moov, mov, mp4, mpeg4, mpg4, mpe, mpeg, mpg, qt, wmv, xvid, rm	fast & easy	unknown	25GM/m	1GM
IMGSpot	no	yes	yes	650KB	jpg, png, gif	not support	depends	no expiration	unlimited	unlimited
ImageVentue	no	yes	yes	1.5MB	jpg, jpeg	not support	unknown	1 yr	unlimited	unlimited
FileAve	yes	yes	yes	unknown	all file types	support	unknown	60 days	4.5GB/m	50MB
AlkaSpace	no	yes	yes	20 megs	jpg, gif, png	not support	unknown	unknown	1000 megs	200 megs
MyNetImages	yes	yes	yes	512KB	jpeg, jpg, gif, png	not support	unknown	no expiration	unlimited	999MB
Host-A	yes	yes	no	unknown	all file types	support	unknown	unknown	550MB	20MB
Image-Upload.net	yes	yes	yes	1MB	jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, txt, zip	not support	fast & easy	unknown	1GB	100MB
Phosted	no	yes	yes	350KB	jpg, gif, png, bmp	not support	fast & easy	40 days	1GB	unknown
ImgFreeHost	no	yes	yes	250KB	gif, jpg, png,	not support	fast & easy	60 days	unknown	unknown
ImageCave	yes	yes	yes	250KB	bmp, jpg, png, gif	not support	fast & easy	unknown	unlimited	10MB

Do you like some of the Free online image servers listed above? Will you consider to try some of them? Or did I miss your favorite one out there?

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What is The Difference Between HTML Sitemap and XML Sitemap?

There are two types of sitemaps in general; namely HTML (Hyper Text Makeup Language) sitemap and XML (EXtensible Makeup Language) sitemap. Do you want to know the difference between them? If you do, then read on…

What is HTML Sitemap?

HTML sitemap is used to list all hyperlinks of different sections and pages of your blog/website. These hyperlinks are normally listed hierarchically and they may provide description for each link. It is no doubt that adding a HTML sitemap to your blog/website will help your visitors navigate and find information easily. So HTML sitemap is primarily created for humans. Although a HTML sitemap is created for your visitors, indexing bot such as Googlebot might have a better chance to crawl your first-time-missed links again since all the files are well put together in your sitemap page. Check this blog’s sitemap to get a general idea of how a HTML sitemap looks like. You can create your own HTML sitemap from HTML Sitemap Generator here.

What is XML Sitemap?

XML sitemap lists URLs (world wide web addresses) for your blog/website in a special format. See the table below for a XML Sitemap with one single URL:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <urlset xmlns=”http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9″> <url> <loc>http://www.yoursite.com/</loc> <lastmod>2007-12-29</lastmod> <changefreq>monthly</changefreq> <priority>0.5</priority> </url> </urlset>

It allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs in your blog/website for easy indexing. XML sitemap is created for search engines but not for humans. Submitting a XML sitemap to search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN will not only help your blog/website being indexing quickly and efficiently but also increase your blog/website’s visibilities in search engines as well. For a full version WordPress blog, you can use Google XML Sitemaps plugin to do the trick for you.

Do you have anything to say about this topic? Or any questions?

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