Love them or hate them, Favicons are a visual business card for your Web site in other people's bookmark bar. Creating them requires the use of an image editor and an application that can save files as a Windows icon (.ico file). Virtually anyone can find an image editor to design their own favicon, but saving them as an .ico file isn't always so easy to find.

I decided to skip the part about finding an app to save The Graphic Mac favicon as an .ico file and instead used GenFavicon, a simple Web site who's only purpose is to generate Favicons for you simply.

You link to, or upload the graphic you wish to use as a Favicon, crop it with the handy cropping tool, choose which size you wish to output the file as (most browsers use a 16x16 pixel icon in the location bar), then wait a few seconds for your Favicon to become available. It's that simple. You can download your file as either an .ico Favicon or a .gif file.