Favicons - sometimes the little touches make all the difference.

A favicon is the little icon, associated with a website, that appears in the address bar of your browser (and on the tab if you used tabbed browsing). It will usually also appear in your bookmarks area in your browser if you bookmark a site.

Google have one, it’s a G in a box. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, go to google.com and look for the little G where you type the address.

Favicons are not hard to create, and add a nice finishing touch to a website. I found a great article on favicons which also links to PixelToolbox - the FREE tool I use myself to create favicons.

PixelToolbox allows you to easily create 16px x 16px windows icons and save them as favicons. While you don’t have to use this format, it is the most widely adoped format so your favicon will be picked up by the maximum amount of browsers and will look great in all of them.

Create your icon, save as favicon.ico and upload it to the root directory of your website. Et voila.

It’s only a little thing, but it adds another small layer of professionalism to your site.

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