The Favorite Icon favicon.ico
I was quite used to seeing the IE icon so far on the internet Explorer browser.And I never bothered to update my favicon.ico files. However, after using Google Chrome (my favorite browser), the favicons have been more prominent, those lovely small 16×16 icons showing in my bookmarks.
Yesterday I planned to create favicon for all my websites and found out that we really need to use this ICO (Windows Icon) Format plugin to be able to create favicon in Photoshop. So I went ahead and created all the icons and was happy with my self. Again for the newbies, if your icon does not show after uploading them, try pressing Ctrl+F5 and your icons will show.I am sure you can see one for this website too 
These icons are very small ie 16×16 pixels and designing such a small image is quite tough so it is better to take a larger canvas maybe around 64 by 64 and then once you are satisfied with the design, just resize it and save the image as .ico file. Today after checking twitter favicon, I came to know that one could create transparent favicon.ico files also. It is simple. Just make your icon as a gif file with a transparent background and then save it as .ico file and it looks more cool.
So all you webmasters out there, who have still not replaced their favicons, do it now!!
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