One of the little touches that will finish off your Web site is if you add a favicon , that little icon that appears in the address bar of a browser when your site loads ( Figure 8.28 ). A favicon is another way to underscore your site's brand identification, and often represents the logo of the organization that runs the site. Favicons are only 16 by 16 pixels large, and virtually all modern Web browsers support them. Figure 8.28. Here are the favicons for four different sites, as seen in Mozilla Firefox.
Before you can add a favicon to the index page of your site, you'll need to create one. There are dedicated favicon editing programs available for purchase, but we prefer to use one of the free online tools that converts a JPEG or GIF file into a favicon for you, such as the ones at www.chami.com/ html-kit /services/favicon/, or http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/. Once you have your favicon file, which must be named favicon.ico , you'll add it to your site's pages in Dreamweaver. You'll do that with the <link> tag, which, while more often used for linking CSS style sheets, works fine for this purpose, too. To add a favicon to your page:
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