What is Favicon?

New Feature IE v5.0 favicon.ico

     Internet Explorer version 5.0 has a new feature, which allows a web designer to create icons. When a user bookmarks your web site in Internet Explorer, this icon becomes the icons in the user's Favorites menu.
     You can create icons using any icons editor. One such editor is called MicroAngelo. Once you have created an icons file, save it as favicon.ico and upload it to your web space. Now, when an IE5 user bookmarks your site, this icon will appear in the user's Favorites menu, to help identify your web site.
     If you do not have a favicon.ico file on your site, you will find a 404 (File Not Found) error whenever an IE5 user bookmarks your site, because it cannot find the file. Internet explorer is looking for an favicon.ico or a custom icon file that customizes your bookmark entry into a users book mark list. If you get an icon editor and make a custom icons 16x16, I think, icon then you can put it in your home directory and when someone bookmarks the site they will see your cute little icons in their bookmarks.
     Now that you have done this, you have to put it in every directory accessible to IE to prevent excessive logging of errors on your server!

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