Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Creat a Favicon

Favicons are icons which show in the browser's tabs or address bar. They make your site look more professional and help make it stand out. An example would be the favicon of my blog shown at the beginning of the post. The picture next to the title is the favicon. 
First, choose an image that you would want to be your favicon. It should be almost square or exactly square. Do not cram to many details in it for it will be put into a "very tight place." You could use Windows snipping tool to clip a peace of your logo. Go to http://convertico.com and select upload a file from computer. Choose your image and wait for it to be uploaded. Then download the finished icon. Now we get to the hard part. Upload the favicon.ico file to you server or website host. Then add this code to your homepage: 
         
    <link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="/favicon.ico">                                                           

Save it and you will be done.

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