With the advent of IE7, the favourite icon on your website is much more important than it used to be... whereas before you would rarely see a favourite icon, with IE7 it is now visible immediately on each tab that you open.
To create a favicon in your website there are various ways of doing this:
- Easiest: create a 16 * 16 pixel ICON image, name it favicon.ico and put it in the root of your website.
- Easy: put the following tag in your html <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/images/favicon.ico" /> with a link to the icon
When I was updating my website which didn't have an icon, I had two options. Either use a software which saves to .ico (Paint Shop doesn't). You can look for a plug-in for your software to enable it to save in icons. Or else find an online site which converts a JPG, BMP, PNG or other image to a (good) .ico version. I opted for the latter. Favicon Maker is a site which allows you to upload your image and converts it to 16 * 16 icon image.
