Favicon a way to increase your business branding
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
What is a FAV icon?A fav icon is basically an image that you see at the left hand side on the website browser (see the above image) The “$” and “G” signs are Fav icons . Now you may ask “well, what’s that FAV icon can do for my website?” In general, there are 3 reasons that it benefits you:
Helps you to “stand out” from the crowdWhen you bookmark a website, the “fav” icon does serve a purpose helping you stand out from your favorite list. Consider the picture below:
How do you add the favorite icon then?If you are using blog platform like wordpress, you can install the MaxPressBlog Fav icon plugin. It’s a free tool and they have a pre-set icons come with that so you can go have a look and I strongly recommend that you download the tools today. But you are not using a wordpress type blog, you can refer: on how do you set up your favorite icons. static HTML websiteIf you are using traditional HTML static website and want to set up a favorite icon, basically what you have to do is creating a 16×16 pixels by imaging tools such as GIMP, a free imaging manipulation program, adobe photoshop and so on. Then you upload the prepared image to your hosting server, and add the following HTML code:
in the <head> </head> section and that’s it! |
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