Add a shortcut icon (favicon) to your web site

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By Jason Slater
Tuesday, 21 October 2008

To add a shortcut icon (known as a favicon) to a web page place the following line in the head section of the HTML page.

The shortcut icon should be named favicon.ico and is typically placed in the root directory of the web site structure.

The icon file needs to be a special .ico format. To produce a suitable icon there are online web sites such as the Favicon Generator and Gallery at http://www.favicon.co.uk/.

You can read more about shortcut icons on the MSDN Site at How to Add a Shortcut Icon to a Web Page

One Comment »

favicon generator says:

Friday, 26 December 2008 at

I am using free tool at animatedfavicon.com. This one works great and its fast

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