Follow these steps to create your own favicon:
- Create a 16x16 color (16 colors) graphic that will represents your website. It could be company logo or a entirely new graphic that will represent your orginization. (In order to create the icon you may need to download a program that will allow you to create your graphic in the .ico format. You can use a free graphic tool like Irfan view to create your graphic).
- Save it as favicon.ico and place it on your root directory where you have installed your index page (If you are using firefox you can use free FTP client, FireFTP to upload your files from your browser).
- Use ASCII text editor (Notepad on Windows) and open the html file. Copy and paste the code below, just below the <head>
<link rel="icon" href=http://yourwebsite.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://yourwebsite.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
For example...
<head>
<link rel="icon" href=http://www.whatisafavicon.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.whatisafavicon.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
</head>
- Delete all the cookies and temp files and restart the browser.
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