With my personal interesting, I'll exprience how to create a favicon. A Favicon is a small custom icon that appears next to a URLs in the address bar of a web browser. They also show up in our bookmark, on the tabs in browsers, and as the icon for Internet shortcuts on your desktop. The file size is 16 pixels by 16 pixels and the file format is Windows Icon (.ico) that we upload to the main directory of our website. Except IE, many browsers can use a GIF (including animated ones) or PNG (including full transparency) instead. To create .ico file in Photoshop, we have to download plugin from Telegraphics. But I didn't download because I found an online favicon generator (such a wonderful world!!) If we make a favicon in Photoshop, create it in 64 by 64 pixels and then resize it to 16 by 16 pixels to save the file as .ico file. In a html file which we want to add a favicon, code (link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="/favicon.ico") between head tags and upload .html file and .ico file together in a same folder. That's it!!
HERE is my first favicon!!
A favicon is very convinient in tabbed web browsers and also in bookmarks because of its visibility. It is so fast to find the one from hundreds of bookmarks with the favicon.
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