Favicon, Customized Icons for Your Web Page Title

Favicon, short for favorites icon, is a small resolution image found in most professional websites. Look at the website title at the top of the web pages you are visiting. It is the small icon next to the title. For example, Associated Content's Favicon looks like a chat bubble. These icons are also recognizable when you add a site in a favorites folder. It looks professional and adds a finishing touch to any website.

Favicons are usually 16x16 or 32x32 pixels and have either an 8 bit or 24 bit color depth. You can create your own icons from scratch or take a picture and convert them. A website that is a useful tool is:

http://www.favicon.cc/

The site lets you create your own image and even lets you import a picture to be converted automatically into a Favicon. Once you have created or downloaded your favicon.ico file, you just need to upload that file into your website's root directory. Next you just need to add a simple HTML code anywhere in your header which is provided for you.

You can also find Favicon's that are available on the internet as long as it is a favicon.ico file and you are put the html code in the header.

Exception for new Internet Explorer 7 Users:

"IE7 is out and there's been some cool changes in the way favicons are handled. No longer are favicons requested and displayed only by the action of a user bookmarking your site; if a favicon is present, IE 7 will display it in the location bar.

IE7 also displays favicons in the individual browser tabs, matching the branding opportunity long enjoyed by Mozilla-based browsers like Firefox and Camino as well as the Opera family. If your clients haven't been favicon aware, they are sure to become so shortly." - http://www.favicon.co.uk/