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October 14, 2008, 01:42:06 AM
Okay, I'm not exactly sure what these images are called, but in Opera, on most websites, there is a little image (usually the logo of the website), up to the left of the address bar.

Is anyone able to explain how to get images there?

Thank you.

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October 14, 2008, 11:13:16 AM
You can use this website to create one from scratch, or you can upload one.

Let me know if you have any problems with it. thumb
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December 18, 2008, 06:09:17 PM
Are you talking abotu favicon? You can create either in photoshop or lots of websites are providing favicon creation when you upload jpg images. You can google for it
 
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December 23, 2008, 01:40:59 PM
Create your icon that you want, then you name it favicon.ico and upload it to your website Smiley
 
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December 24, 2008, 08:33:48 AM
The exact method is

1) Create an .ico (icon file). There are sites which can give you icon files from you main logo in minutes but they are not that good. Suggest you to custome made icon file from some designer as per your requirement.

2) The suggested size of this icon is 16X16 OR 32X32.

3) Upload the icon file on you main directory or else you can create seperate directory for this icon.

4) Use following HTML code in the <HEAD> </HEAD> tag of the main template of the site.

If the icon is placed in main directory of the site

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

If the icon is placed in some other sub-directory

Code:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/folder-name/logo.ico">


I will prefer to use full path for the icon file

Code:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.your-site-name.com/logo.ico">


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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.your-site-name.com/folder-name/logo.ico">



Hope this helps you.
 
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December 28, 2008, 09:54:50 AM
Favicon is the logo of the concerned website, i understand the favicon of the google is its own name. Most of the websites have their favicons as their symbol or the main logo. Usually clicking the favicon leads you to the home page of the website, irrespective of which page you are. 
 
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December 29, 2008, 09:58:33 AM
If you visit this forum in FireFox then you will notice the Favicon for the forum as an image with words 'TT'  clapping
 
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December 29, 2008, 05:38:38 PM
Quote from: Admin on December 29, 2008, 09:58:33 AM
If you visit this forum in FireFox then you will notice the Favicon for the forum as an image with words 'TT'  clapping

Same with IE. Except on IE8, on my favorites bar all the favicons gets messed up, so I have Google with the TT favicon Tongue
 
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August 13, 2010, 08:34:25 AM
Favicon means the favorite icon of a website.  Certain websites use their name as Favicons like Google whereas some use their symbol as the favicon.
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August 17, 2010, 05:21:56 AM
To ensure compliance with some browsers with attitude, specifically Internet Explorer, your favicon should be called "favicon.ico".

There are a few cases I've had where I have a valid uploaded ICO file, and it is pointed properly in HTML, but because it's not called favicon.ico, IE ignores it.
 
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August 30, 2010, 12:45:27 PM
Does a custom fav icon help with SEO at all?
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August 30, 2010, 11:38:26 PM
NO. The fav icon will just help to point out the website from others, when we generally browse multiple sites in tabbed browsers
 
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create a favicon and upload it to the root of your site,it will display automatically      
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March 09, 2011, 11:42:57 PM
Thank you for sharing.
 
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April 27, 2011, 02:48:47 AM
I know one software called logo creator, Which is best option for creating a logo for your business.  It's freely available on the Internet and very small size.  
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