Favicon: what is it, how to do it

What is a favicon?

A favicon (short for favorite icon), also known as a shortcut icon, website icon, tab icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon, is a very small image, associated with your website or a particular web page.

It will be typically displayed in the browser's address bar, next the page's title on the tab, or next the page's name in a list of bookmarks or in browser history.

The favicon file has .ico extension.

Dimension of a favicon is 16x16 or 32x32

 

How to create a favicon?

You can make your own favicon using many free on-line tools:

http://favicon.htmlkit.com/favicon/

http://www.favicon.cc/

http://realfavicongenerator.net/

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