Change the URL icons for your website.
URL icons are technically known as "favicons." They are the icons located on the extreme left of the Windows Internet Explorer address bar directly before the URL, and they are simply tiny icons that represent the website that you are visiting. Not all websites have URL icons, but most do because that same icon appears in your favorites list when you bookmark the site, making the website more memorable and recognizable. If you want to change URL icons in Windows Internet Explorer for your website, you can do so by simply accessing your website HTML files.
Instructions
1. Launch your image editing program (for example, Microsoft Paint or Mac Paintbrush) and use the tools provided by your editing program (such as "Paintbrush," "Shapes," "Clip art" and "Pencil") to create a new URL icon for your website. Size the icon to 16 pixels by 16 pixels. Click the "Save As" button and select "bmp" from the dropdown menu next to "Save As File Type."
2. Download and install an icon file converter onto your computer’s hard drive. Click on the download button or link and then click the "Run" button. Follow the steps within the installation wizard to complete the process of installing the icon file converter on your computer.
3. Launch the icon file converter and then click on the "Open" button. Double click on the icon bmp file you just created to open it inside the converter. Then click the "Save As" button and select the "ico" file extension from the "Save As File Type" dropdown menu.
4. Navigate to your Web host and log in to your account. Click the "Upload" button and upload your favicon to the root directory of your website. Open your homepage’s HTML file and then copy and paste the following string of code into the head tag ( and ) of your HTML code: . Replace the "yourwebsite" section with your website's information and the section that says "favicon" with whatever you named your favicon. Click "Save" to save the change to your URL icon in Windows Internet Explorer.
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