A favicon is a small image (16 x 16 pixels) that appears alongside the url address of the browser’s address bar.

Favicons will also appear beside a browser’s “favourite” url listing when a site with favicon is bookmarked as show below:

Creating a favicon
You can create a small image (16 x 16 pixels) using Fireworks,  Photoshop or GIMP and then use IrfanView to convert the image to .ico format. In this case, you must save the file as favicon.ico or it will not work.
Add favicon to your blog
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Welcome to my WordPress blog.
I have use this blog to record my experience in using WordPress, both as my own reference as well as sharing it to the world.
I hope that my readers will benefit from my efforts so that they will find using WordPress a pleasure rather than frustration.
The path has been laid by me and all you have to do is to follow them.
Lastly, I wish you all the success & happy blogging.
Solomonc