I had received an email from a client subject reading ‘little-thing before my domain name’ What is a Favicon?
A Favicon (short for favourites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, URL, icon, or bookmark icon is a 16×16, 32×32 or 64×64 pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage.
Creating a Favicon.
Create an image 16 x 16 pixels in size. 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 feel that 256 colours work fine.
If you like, you can also create a 32 x 32 pixel icon, which will be scaled to size for the Favourites menu and the location bar. You can even put both 16 x 16 and 32 x 32 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").
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.
Creating a Favicon.
Create an image 16 x 16 pixels in size. 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 feel that 256 colours work fine.
If you like, you can also create a 32 x 32 pixel icon, which will be scaled to size for the Favourites menu and the location bar. You can even put both 16 x 16 and 32 x 32 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").
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.
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