When you go to my website you will notice on the address and the tab bar this little icon "ij" [which are my initials ingo jezierski]. It's kind of a logo which 'brands' your site. It's a must for all big sites. This little thing is called a 'favicon' = 'favorite icon'. There is even a dedicated website to this. Check out: http://www.favicon.com
Here the simple steps how I designed my favicon.
1. I designed this icon in Photoshop CS2 [any other photo editing software will also do the job], starting with a 100x100 px window with a black background.
2. Then reduced the size to 16x16 px and saved it as favicon.jpg
3. Now you need a special software like IrfanView that allows the conversion to the .ico file format.
4. This favicon.ico image must be placed in the root directory of your website, where all the html files are sitting.
5. Now you need to add the following lines to the head part of the HTML code of all the pages that are supposed to show the icon:
... and here we go 'professional'.
Here the simple steps how I designed my favicon.
1. I designed this icon in Photoshop CS2 [any other photo editing software will also do the job], starting with a 100x100 px window with a black background.
2. Then reduced the size to 16x16 px and saved it as favicon.jpg
3. Now you need a special software like IrfanView that allows the conversion to the .ico file format.
4. This favicon.ico image must be placed in the root directory of your website, where all the html files are sitting.
5. Now you need to add the following lines to the head part of the HTML code of all the pages that are supposed to show the icon:
... and here we go 'professional'.
