Look at the top of your browser near the Back button and WWW address to see the Favorites Icon.
The Favorites Icon will show up next to the URL (the http:// web address) in your web browser near the top of the window (close to the Foward and Back button.
The Favorites Icon will show up next to the URL (the http:// web address) in your web browser near the top of the window (close to the Foward and Back button.
The steps to putting a favicon.ico on your website are:
- Create a 16px X 16px, 16 colour image with either a .bmp or .gif extension.
Another option is to download a free icon editor and make your own through that.
- Convert your image to the .ico format if it's .bmp or .ico.
- Upload your favicon.ico into the root directory of your website.
- Insert a link to it in all your pages that you wish to use the favicon.
Put this piece of code somewhere between the <head></head> tags on your pages:
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.yourdomain.com/name_of_icon.ico">
If you have a 'secure' site, you will need to provide the path using https:
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="https://www.yourdomain.com/name_of_icon.ico">
That's about it. If you've gone through these steps, you can try bookmarking your page to see if the favicon shows up. Of course, if you already HAVE the page bookmarked, it won't show - as your browser checks for the favicon at the time of bookmarking. You will find if you remove your site from favourites and add it again, it probably won't work still, as there will be traces of the bookmark left somewhere on your computer so it won't check. The best way to test it in this case is to get a friend to do it.
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