A favicon stands for favorite icon. It also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon. It is a 16×16, 32×32 or 64×64 pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage.

Browsers that provide favicon support typically display a page’s favicon in the browser’s address bar and next to the page’s name in a list of bookmarks. Browsers that support a tabbed document interface typically show a page’s favicon next to the page’s title on the tab.

As a web designer you can create such an icon by several means. One of them is provided by http://www.html-kit.com/favicon. You can create favicon using your own image. There are also many customizing options too such as background color, text animation, add iPhone and iPod Touch icon, add a border around the image and so on. You can instantly preview your favicon in the browser before you decide to download the favicon package. Nice tools!