Do You Use A Fav Icon On Your Blog?

Posted on September 16th, 2008 by admin in Domain Development, Domain News | No Comments »

Trivial as it may seem to some, a lot of people fail to use a favicon on their blog. A favicon (aka shortcut icon) is an icon associated with a blog or website. Browsers that support favicons display them in their URL.

A favicon (file extension .ico) appears as follows in your blog html:
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”/images/dnx.ico” />

People add a favicon to their blog in order to improve its overall memorability. When I visit a new website and I like it, I add it to my bookmarks. Days later when I browse through my bookmarks it is a lot easier to find a bookmark if it was marked with a cool favicon as a favicon makes a bookmark stand out. You can create a favicon for free at favicon.cc.

To add a favicon to your blog you can edit your blog theme’s header.php file or if you are not proficient with coding you can install DigitalRamble’s Fav Icon Manager plugin.