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What is a Favicon and How to Create a Favicon Icon for Your Website |
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Written by Icon Li
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Friday, 15 August 2008 07:51 |
What is a favicon?
A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. Browsers that support them may display them in the browser's URL bar, next to the site's name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page's title in a tabbed document interface. The Windows operating system is capable of displaying favicons in Internet shortcuts placed on the desktop and elsewhere in the file system. The original favicon feature was created by Microsoft for Internet Explorer which would request a favicon from a set URL (/favicon.ico) on every website. The Mozilla web browser Firefox added support for favicons in a way that conformed to web standards through the use of rel="icon" and letting web designers add favicon in any supported graphics format, e.g. <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/path/image.png"/>. Most web browsers have since added support for this feature, and it is generally used for all new content.
How to create a favicon.ico ?
Please find tremendous recommended icon creating softwares in Icon-making Softwares, which can help make your website a pretty icon at sized 16*16.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 15 October 2008 06:40 )
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