How to Add A Favicon to your Web Site 

Favicons are great little images that browsers associate with URLs.  Nearly all browsers support Favicon.

Favicons are a little 16×16 pixel pictures that appear in navigation bars.

favicon

All you need to do to find your site a picture that you want to associate with or design your own.  Just make sure the image is 16X16 in size and has “.ico” file extension.

If you don’t know how to convert your image to “.ico”, you can use one of the online converters. There are many of them. Here is one you can use.

Favicon Generator

Once you get your image as an .ico file, you can use it as a favicon.

How to add it as a Favicon to your Web Site

All you have to is to place a piece of code in your index page.

Upload your icon to your server and place the following code in your index page within <head> </head> tags.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />

If you choose to upload in a different directory other than, you would need to change “href” part of code.  Once you’re done with placing the code, you can refresh your page with your browser.  Some browsers might take more refreshing for your favicon to appear.  To avoid that, you can clear browser cache and favicon should appear in your browser.