How To: Create a Favicon.ico and Add it to your Site

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A Favicon is a little (16px by 16px) custom icon that appears next to a website’s URL in the address bar of a web browser. All you need to add a Favicon to your site is a Windows Icon (.ico) file usually called favicon.ico that you upload to the main directory of your website.

You then need to add the following code to the <head> tag of your html :
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How To: Convert an image(PNG, JPG, GIF) to .ico

There are a lot of sites where you can convert you images to .ico but I personally prefer iconverticons.com
Just upload your image and it will convert it to the ico

How To: Use a PNG or GIF file as Favicon

If you want to use a GIF or PNG instead an .ico, you can use this format (just remember that it won’t work in IE):
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