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FaviconFavicon (pronounced fav-eye-con) is short for 'Favorites Icon. A Favicon is a multi-resolution image included on nearly all professional developed sites. Within Internet Explorer, the Favicon is displayed on the Address line and in the Favorites menu. The Favicon allows the webmaster to further promote their site, and to create a more customized appearance within a visitor's browser. Often, the Favicon reflects the look and feel of the website or the organization's logo. Using a favicon, your site will automatically stand out from all the rest. There are two approaches: Create a 16x16, 16 color graphic and convert it into a .ico file. Use HTML to indicate the location of an icon for any given page. This is achieved using a tag of the form <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"> in the <head> section of the page. In this way, any appropriately sized image can be used, and although many still use the .ico format, others use GIF or PNG files.
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Browser specific notes:
Internet Explorer supports favicons since version 5.0. It is actually quite hard to make IE show the favicon. If the icon is not showing, try one of the following:
Add the page to your favorites. If you already have the page in your favorites folder, remove it and add it again.
Make sure, the icon file is called favicon.ico and it is placed in the root
folder of your web server.
Make sure, the path to the favicon in the header of your page is absolute,
not relative.
Delete your temporary Internet files. If the folder with temporary files has reached its maximum, the favicon may not be used. You can find a fee Favicon generator at http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/
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