A favicon is a small icon (16 x16 pixel) associated with a web site. The favicon is displayed by modern web browsers in the address bar, tabs, and bookmarks.
Nowadays, almost all the web sites and blogs have their own favicon. The following screenshot shows a favicon displayed in Mozilla Firefox:
You'll need a 16 x 16 pixels image to serve as a favicon. Due to the very small display size of the favicon, the image should be very simple.
Tip
I always tend to use a background color that fits my web site color scheme, and a simplified logo.
Basically, you can use .jpg
, .png
, .gif
, or even .mng
and .apng
files to display a favicon. Unfortunately, the Internet Explorer (6 and 7) recognizes only the Windows .ico
file format named favicon.ico
.
Therefore, if you want to have an IE-compatible favicon, you'll have to convert your image file from png
, gif
, or jpg
to Windows .ico
.
Many imaging software applications can convert an image into a Windows icon file...