First, what is favicon?
Favorite icon! Yes, when you bookmark a web-site you like and the look through your bookmarks, which are all text, you may easily recognize your favorite sites with small graphic element located to the left of the title.
In browser’s address bar favicon appears on the left side right before URL.
To insert favicon into your page you need to:
1. Create an image you’d like to be a favicon fo your site
2. Create a favicon from image with .ico resolution – how to read below
3. Upload favicon to your web site’s files folder
4. Insert one of these pieces of code between <head> and </head> tags:
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico”>
<link rel=”icon” type=”image/gif” href=”animated_favicon1.gif”>
Generally favicons could be 16×16 or 32×32 pixels, and animated or static.
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