Favicon! Add the Tiny Icon to your Website
One simple but often overlooked way to improve your site is to add a Favicon. What’s a favicon? It is the tiny square image that appear next to URLs on the address bar and in your Favorites/Bookmarks. This little graphic can make your site stand out against all the other links since most people don’t create them.
But it is easy!
- Simply open your image editor, set the size to 16 x 16 pixels.*
- Save as png or gif
- rename to favicon.ico
- Upload to the top directory of your website
This may be enough for the browser to automatically sense it, but if not add the following between the <head></head> of your front page.
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://www.YourSite.com/favicon.ico” />
Again, very few websites have one so adding yours will instantly help your site stand out.
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* If you don’t have an image editor, try Gimp. It is free and almost as powerful as software that costs hundreds of dollars. See my review here.
