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What is Favicon.ico
What is Favicon.ico and how to create a Favicon Icon for your website? Many web browsers have a facility where, if someone bookmarks your website (ie puts it in their “Favorites” menu), it associates a particular icon with your website in the bookmark.
It tries to obtain that icon by first requesting for “favicon.ico” from the directory of your web page. If it cannot find such a file, it will try to obtain it from the root directory of your website, failing which, it will simply use a default icon for the bookmark.
Favorites Menu
Most, if not all, modern browsers also have the ability to use the favicon.ico file. In fact, many of them also accept the file in other graphics formats, such as the PNG format. These browsers display the “favicon.ico” in the location bar of the browser (the part that shows your website’s address or URL).
Helping the Browser Locate the favicon.ico file
If you have placed your favicon.ico file in a location other than the current web directory (relative to your web page) or the root directory, you have to help your visitors’ browser locate the favicon file by specifying it with a tag like the following in the section of your web page.
Look at this example, specifically on line 8.
How to Create a "Favicon.ico" File
Yes, it is really small and you can’t really draw much in it. You should also restrict yourself to the standard Windows 16 colours, although I suspect that 256 colours will work fine.
If you like, you can also create a 32X32 pixel icon, which will be scaled to size for the Favorites menu and the location bar. You can even put both 16X16 and 32X32 pixel icons into the same icon file. Windows will use the former for its menus and the latter when the user opens up a folder that is set to display large icons. It’s probably not really necessary to do this if you can’t be bothered.
- Save the image as an ICO file (named “favicon.ico”, of course).
- Upload it to your website.
You don’t need to upload one to every directory of your site if you don’t want to waste space — simply put it in your root directory and the web browsers that support favicons will apparently locate it eventually. You can also upload it into your images directory, but you will need to modify your web pages if you do. See later in this article for more information on this.
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