Free clip art images from openclipart.org
If you need to create a favicon, or an icon you should consider using the Open Clip Art Library or openclipart.org. This collection has more than 10,000 images and from more than 500 artists. All images are in the public domain by its contributors. Images can be downloaded free in SVG or PNG format. Here are a few examples of the images in the library
We have used several images to create our own icons for our free Android apps. Here are 2 samples of our icons:
Useful links:
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How to create a favicon
If you have a website and you are not an IT expert, this article is for you. Favicon is an icon that is associated with your website. Here is the favicon
of wikipedia.com.
There are 3 steps that you will do to create a favicon: 1-create an image to be used as your favicon, 2-get the image into the right format, and 3-upload the favicon to your site.
Step 1 – Create an image to be used as your favicon
The simplest way would be using a free image from openclipart.org. Openclipart.org is a “project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use.”
For example, if you have a restaurant website, you may use the following clipart 
on openclipart.org.
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/29178
There are 2 choices that you can download SVG and PNG versions. The PNG version is easier so you should download this version. Now you are ready for step 2.
Step 2 – Convert the PNG version to ICO format
While there are several formats can be used for favicon purpose, we stay with ICO format for a practical purpose. It is the format that is accepted for all browsers.
You can use an online tool to convert a PNG image into a favicon.ico. There are several online tools that you can use to do this. Our favorite one is on Dynamic Drive, http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
You can search on Google with “online favicon generators” to find more online generators.
Using DynamicDrice.com online favicon tool is quite straight forward. You can click the Browse button to upload the PNG image. Then you can click the Create Icon button. You will be able to download the favicon and save it in your local computer.
Step 3 – Upload your favicon.ico to your website.
This still would be the most complicated step of these three steps. It will depend on what website that you have. If you a website of simple HTML pages, you will need to add a line of code to the header of each html page.
The instruction is in the section “More information on favicon. Click at this link to read it
If you have a CMS website like Joomla or 
WordPress, you need to use the following instructions.
Joomla official document shows the instruction at http://docs.joomla.org/Changing_the_site_favicon. As long as you know which template is used on your site, you can upload to the correct folder using the instruction.
For our WordPress site, we follow the instruction on WordPress.org http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Favicon
Useful links (for creating favicon for your website)
- How to upload a file using an ftp software like Filezilla: http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/FileZilla_Client_Tutorial_%28en%29
- How to use Paint.NET tutorial: The Very Basic of Paint.NET part 1, part 2, and part 3
