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Have you ever detected that once you fix your eyes on at your witness favorites carte du jour or the address bar, quite a few entries have their own minor icon beside their URL?

It's called a "Favicon" (a graphical record next to a .ico hold) and it's situated in the root encyclopaedia of the web place. Everytime you bookmarker a piece of ground that has its own favicon.ico file, it is added to your browser, and it will be perceptible from past on in the favorites card and in the code bar.

At the beginning, one and only larger websites had a favicon, but now you too can concoct one and use it to mark your website. The basic point you have to do is to make your favicon. To be displayed by browsers, it must have a scope of 16x16 pixels. To create one, you can use a graphics system named Icon Forge (you can download a unrestricted try-out performance in CNET):

You can any invent an icon from scratch, or importation a 16x16 '.gif' or '.jpg' report and release it as a '.ico' wallet.

You will past have to pick up your statue next to the defaulting first name of 'favicon.ico', and upload it to the heart guide of your website (where your index page is). Finally, after that, you essential draw a parallel your icon to your web folio. You do that by plus the following HTML secret message without hesitation after the HEAD tag of your page:

link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.yourwebsite.com/favicon.ico"

Once you've through that, that's it. To try it out, go to your web page and add your leaf to your favorites. You should be competent to see the favicon close to your bookmarked folio rubric. Also, the close case you field your URL in the computer address bar, you will see your favicon to the near of the URL.

(Favicons practise near Internet Explorer 5 or newer, and near recent versions of Netscape.)

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