Favicon refers to the favicon.ico file, which is a website icon file that appears in the browser’s Favorites menu and also in the location bar. Microsoft introduced this starting in IE5 exclusively as part of the Favorites menu tab. Firefox improvised this concept to display the favicon on the left side of the address bar. Even other browsers like Opera, Flock and Google Chrome have implemented this concept.
How to create a “Favicon.ico” file
1. Create an image 16X16 pixels in size. Yes, it’s very small and you can’t draw much on it. You should also be limited to the standard Windows 16 colors, although I suspect 256 colors will work just fine.
2. You can also go to this website – GraphicsGuru and generate a favicon.ico file yourself by simply specifying your logo.
3. Upload the favicon.ico file to your root folder and web browsers will locate it by themselves.
Problem solving
1. If your hosting does not allow uploading of .ico files, try uploading it as a gif file or any other format and then rename it to .ico
2. If you have placed the favicon.ico in any other folder than the root, you need to add the following code in the web page section.
Simply replace “/favicon.ico” in the example above with the actual location of your favicon.ico file.
And that’s it, that’s it! If you have any more problems, feel free to leave a comment and I will surely help you.