Why you need a Favorite Icon for your website

10 June 2009
The favorite icon (favicon.ico) is is a 16 pixel square small graphic that shows up next to website address in the address bar.

Why you need a Favorite Icon for your website
24 March 2009


The favorite icon (favicon.ico) is is a 16 pixel square small graphic that shows up next to website address in the address bar, in tabs on some web browsers and next to the web page’s title in the favorites of some versions of web browsers including FireFox and Internet Explorer, and shortcuts on your desktop or other folders in Windows / Apple.

That being said, all you need to add a Favicon to your site is a Windows Icon (.ico) file usually called favicon.ico that you upload to the main directory of your website.

The favorite icon is also a good way to market your website and stand out from the crowd. If you use a web browser with a tabbed interface and you have a few sites open, you will notice that each tab has an icon on it. The icon has become a good way to market your website to web browsers when they have multiple sites open.

Here is a great tutorial on creating your own favorite icon (favicon.ico) using Adobe PhotoShop: http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/jennifer/favicon.html