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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 2:50 am

Adding a Favicon

If you do not know, a favicon is the small icon which appears in the web browser bookmarks, tabs in the browser Web, and along the navigation bar to any website that is.

Add a favicon to your website is a smart thing to do for several reasons. On the one hand, the addition of a favicon as significantly improving the professionalism of your website and the company that people associate with it. It's another part of your image brand you definitely should not ignore.

Second, using a favicon on your website also is separated from its website all the others. Not only help differentiate your site from other markers that anyone can do within your web browser, but also puts a leg up on any website without an icon. By Finally, it is also very easy to add a favicon to your website, so there is no reason not to.

Now that I have described what exactly a favicon is and why it is important to have one on your website, let's talk about how to add a favicon.

First, you have to design your icon. Favicon should be 16 pixels by 16 pixels in height and width. You can create an icon with your graphic designer of choice. I personally prefer Adobe Illustrator, but I know many people like to use Photoshop.

You can even get by using paint that is a free program that comes with Windows. If you have an existing chart or logo of your company, you might think about reducing it or take a piece of it, in particular, and the reduction of that and make the icon if it has want to create one from scratch. If nothing else that could only be the initials of your company and store them in a bold font.

Once the icon has been created, you should save as a. ICO. If you are having problems with this, can be saved as a JPEG, GIF or PNG and then convert them with one click using a service free can not link to here, but are bound to mention that at the end of this article. This service churn out the exact file you need for your website.

Now that we have designed our icon and made it down to an icon file, the only thing left to do is post it on our website. After have uploaded this file using an FTP program or the WordPress theme if the theme has a custom area to load the icon file, the changes will be implemented immediately and you see the icon in your browser.

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If you don't have a theme/design for your website which does this for you, click on this link for how to add a favicon to see the two lines of code which you must upload along with your icon to your site to ensure that it gets properly displayed and for that link to the icon converter service for free.

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