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Article #108: How to Create a Favicon for Your Web Site

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One of the simplest things you can do to resolution. This is the part where you
give your site 'identity' and to make it find your fantastic logo looks rubbish
stand out from other sites is to use a when 16 x 16 pixels! If your having
favicon (favourite icon). They are the trouble, you could use a free icon
little logos that go next to the website converter like Image Icon Converter or
listing in your favourites folder, and use an icon editor such as ImageAuthor to
pop up in other places, (depending on build your icon from scratch.
your browser and operating system). To 3) Now, save your logo as "favicon.ico".
see one, go to Big Wow Web Hosting. This is the default icon name that web
Bookmark the site, open another browser browsers like Explorer and Netscape look
window and then go to open the bookmark for. Upload it into the root directory of
you have just made. The 'B' next to the your web site (the main directory that
words 'Big Wow Web Hosting- Home' is the contains all your HTML pages). Voila!
favicon. Your favicon should now be working!
Want one? Just follow these 3 simple To test your favicon, get a friend to
steps: bookmark your site and then open a new
1) Choose the logo you want to use for browser window. If is next to your
your favicon. On my site, I use a 'B' in listing in their bookmarks, it works!
the same format as the website title, To test your favicon in the designing
buut anything will do, as long as it stages, dump your cache and open a new
reflects the look and feel of your browser window between tries before
website. Bear in mind that the size of it bookmarking your site. If you don't you
will be reduced to 16 x 16 pixels. will just see the same favicon as when
2) If it isn't already, convert your logo you first bookmarked it, as your computer
into a .JPG or.GIF and either make it 256 will have cached it in an effort to
color Web Safe Palette or the Windows 16 reduce loading times.
color format (the fewer colors the That's all you need to do! You now have
better). Then, using a graphics package an eye-catching logo representing your
or image manipulation software, reduce web site in the favorites list of all
the image to 16 pixels wide by 16 pixels your visitors. A professional touch for
high. Try to preserve the image very little effort.






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