What is a Favorites Icon?

A favorits icon is the little graphic image that appears next to your domain name in the address bar in a web browser.

How to Create a Favorites Icon

Go into a graphics program and create an image 16x16 pixels in size. Reduce the colors to 16. Save the image in a Windows Icon format with the name

favicon.ico

How to Convert Your Image to an Icon

If your graphics program will not save a .ico file, save the file as .png. There are many websites and programs that will convert an image file to a .ico.

This one worked for me.
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon

How to Put the Favorites Icon on Your Website

Upload the file favicon.ico to the root of your website.

If you want to put the favorites icon somewhere else, you will need to specify where the icon is in your page html. Like this

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

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