About Favicons
Posted The: 22/02/2009 At: 12:07
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Favicons are the small images next to the URL in the browsers address bar, they are also used as icons for bookmarks, when someone bookmarks your site.
How to use Them
The favicon is limited to 16 colors, and should be no larger then 16x16 pixels for best browser compatibility. You can use IrfanView or IconEdit32 to save the image as an .ico file.
Note. Simply saving the image with the .ico extension wouldn't work. It may in some browsers, but the file extension would be incorrect.
You need to convert image to the ico format. See also: Web Designers Tools List The icon is placed in the root of your site, and named favicon.ico
Alternative
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/mappe/ikon.ico">
Above is placed in the head of your site, in case you want to name the icon something else then favicon, or in case you want to place it somewhere else then the root.
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