Since Internet Explorer 5.0 has been brought out, there is a splendid new ' joke ' Favicon. Favicon (short for Favorites Icon) is a feature that makes it possible to associate a special logo or other small graphic with a web page.
Probably you also have these small pictures associated with some of your Favorites. Open your Favorites in Internet Explorer. Do you see that there are pictures for each Favorite? On many Favorites this picture is always the same. This is the standard icon of Internet Explorer. This Internet site did not made his own favicon.
At some Favorites you will see, hopefully, an other picture. These are sites which have established their own favicon. Do you notice how these Favorites are distinguish from other Favorites? The effort worth therefore, to make a favicon yourself for your Internet site. And this is possible without any cost.
Do you have no Favorites with a different picture, and Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher? Then just visit http://www.horses.co.uk/ and add it to your favourites. When you look again you will see that in the Favorites you have a special picture of a horse.
But how do you make such a favicon?
In the first place you must make an icon or have one. You must give this icon the name "favicon.ico". There are many sites where you can get free icons, e.g. iconarchive.com. Download one you like and rename it to "favicon.ico". You can devise yourself your own unique icon with a free icon editor, e.g. www.webattack.com/get/iconediter.shtml.
If you have finished your icon, place it in the same directory (map) as your homepage and put it on the server (upload/publish). If someone add your Internet site to there Favorites, it will show your favicon. If you test this yourself it is possible that nothing happens on your computer, because the website was already in your Favorites before you had a favicon. Just delete and add the website again as a Favorite. You can also call a friend (who has not add your site to his Favorites), and ask him to test the favicon for you.
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