What is Favicon.ico

Favicon (short for “favorites icon”) is a small icon special for websites what appear before title in browsers or when you have bookmark some page in list of bookmarks. In Yandex.ru search engine favicon.ico also appear before title of site while searching. Favicon, also known as a page icon or an urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. You can define a favicon by placing a file called favicon.ico in the root directory of your server.

Favicon Generators

There are a lot of favicon generators (or it can calls as favicon creator) you can find in search engines. For example, http://favicon.co.uk. There you can upload your image in any format and get .ico format image (download favicon), thats all. Generally, favicon generators are commercial software but you can find and free ones.

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