What the heck is a favicon?
A Favicon is an icon image that you can use to ‘brand’ your Website and make it stand out from the crowd. It lends your site sharpness and polish and improves ‘stickiness’. Favicon stands for ‘Favorites Icon’. If you have installed a Favicon on your server, then every time someone bookmarks your site your own icon will be displayed in their favorite’s folder instead of the generic I.E. symbol. This makes it much easier to see your site amongst all the other bookmarks, therefore making browsers more aware of your site, and getting you more repeat visitors. See how the BannerSharp site stands out from the rest of the crowd here. The favicon.ico convention is used at present by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer versions 5 and above and Linux’s Konqueror Web Browser. However, as approximately 80 percent of all surfers are currently using IE5/6, having your own Favicon makes very good sense.
A Favicon is an icon image that you can use to ‘brand’ your Website and make it stand out from the crowd. It lends your site sharpness and polish and improves ‘stickiness’. Favicon stands for ‘Favorites Icon’. If you have installed a Favicon on your server, then every time someone bookmarks your site your own icon will be displayed in their favorite’s folder instead of the generic I.E. symbol. This makes it much easier to see your site amongst all the other bookmarks, therefore making browsers more aware of your site, and getting you more repeat visitors. See how the BannerSharp site stands out from the rest of the crowd here. The favicon.ico convention is used at present by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer versions 5 and above and Linux’s Konqueror Web Browser. However, as approximately 80 percent of all surfers are currently using IE5/6, having your own Favicon makes very good sense. When someone calls your site up from their favorites folder your Favicon will be displayed in the addres
