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Posted by: Greg Elwell 3/16/2008 10:07 AM

Are you curious about how stuff works? Interested in how best to leverage and get the most out of the tools, applications and solutions that are out there? If so, you may find this feature useful.

 
This month, I want to tell you about a cool way you can put your logo in front of your website visitors' eyeballs when the look at their browser's address bar when your web pages load. Like this:
 
zm_favicon
 
That little icon is called a Favicon. While it takes a little technical know-how to generate it and get it implemented on your web pages, it's well worth the effort. It gives your site a professional and classy touch - don't you think?
 
Here are the steps:
  1. Create a .gif of your logo 16 pixels wide by 16 pixels high
  2. Generate your Favicon into the required .ico format - Click Here for a utility to do that
  3. You will then download the favicon.ico file to your computer
  4. Upload the favicon.ico image to the same directory as your web page files on your web server
  5. Add the following HTML tag inside the <head> and </head> section of each page of your website you want the Favicon to appear:
  6. <link rel="shortcut icon" href'="favicon.ico">

You do need to have FTP access to your web server, and you need to know how to access the HTML of your web pages. Let me know if I can be of any assistance.

By the way, for those who are curious about looking up how more stuff works - try this website: http://www.howstuffworks.com
Copyright ©2008 Greg Elwell
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