1. What is Favicon?
Favourite + Icon = Favicon.
Favicon in simple terms is your brand or website logo. Like Facebook and
Instagram has following favicons :
2. Important points to remember while creating
favicon for your website :
1) The format for the image you have chosen must be 16x16 pixels
or 32x32 pixels, using either 8-bit or 24-bit colors
2) The format of the image must be one of PNG (a W3C standard),
GIF,JPG, or ICO. w3c.org
3. How to create favicon for your website ?
Step 1: Go to the following url :
http://www.favicon-generator.org/ . You will the following screen
4. Step 2 : Then
1)Upload your website’s logo
2)Select the option Generate only 16x16 favicon.ico
3)Click on create favicon
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5. Step 3: Download the generated favicon and copy
the code in <head> section of all your web pages
code :
You can use any one link
Give the correct path link for your favicon image
6. Step 4 : Then upload the downloaded favicon.ico image as
well as well all your web pages containing favicon to your
website using filezilla ftp client
7. Then check your website for the output. You should see your
logo(favicon) next to the url of your website