Favicon Tutorial
Favicon comes from Favorites Icon. It is a “little” icon associated to a HTML page, or to a website, that is shown in the Address Bar, before the visited address and it is used for displaying a customized website .
Favicon it is actually a file having the characteristics below:
- the name is favicon.ico
- 32×32 or 16×16 pixels for dimensions
- 265 colors
Before adding a favicon to the pages make sure that are accepted on the server. You have to make two operations for adding a favicon:
- insert in your HTML code in the head zone the code below:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
- upload it on the server in the same folder with the associated webpage
Usually you have to upload the favicon in the domains root .
Note that this file is displayed by some browsers like: Mozilla, Firefox, Opera but not by the Internet Explorer.
You can use specialized graphic programs, for example Adobe Photoshop, but you have to add a plug-in which let us save different pictures format in .ico formats. You can have your .ico file, uploading the picture here. There are also programs that can be installed on your computer for changing files, for example, from .jpg formats into .ico formats.
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