Generate favicon online and implement it in your webpage

What is a favicon?
A favicon is an icon associated to a website (or a particular section of a website) - also called as the website icon. There are a few options available to implement a favicon in your webpage, but the most traditional one is by placing a favicon.ico file.

- favicon establishes your brand
- it helps users identify your site from browser tabs
- also, helps visually identifying your site from bookmarks

Generate favicon.ico files online
favicon.cc is a great tool (favicon generator) for creating customized favicons quickly.

Some cool features by favicon.cc:
draw your favicon in MS Paint like interface (colour picker available)
upload images directly (for converting image files into .ico file)
animations (animate your favicon)
share your icon with others

How to implement it in your webpage?
Just add this code in the HEAD tag of your webpage:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://yoursite.com/favicon.ico">

Online htaccess editor

Ever wanted to have your own custom page for 404 (Bad Request) errors or redirect old web pages using htaccess? But dont have any experience with htaccess yet? This online tool is for you then - http://www.htaccesseditor.com/en.shtml. It takes your information in seven steps and outputs a nicely formatted htaccess file.

Features
Deny all access to files
Basic authentication (.htpasswd required)
Error page
Default page
Setup WWW
Redirect directives
Access restriction

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