Free favicon.ico Icons For Your Website Or Blog
Here’s a collection of 3508 free icons you can use for your favicon.ico for your blog or website.
Free Icons
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Enjoy these free website icons, here are but a few of the icons included in this set
free favicon.ico icons
What’s a favicon.ico ?
A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon and install it into a website (or webpage) by several means, and most graphical web browsers will then make use of it. Browsers that provide favicon support typically display a page’s favicon in the browser’s URL bar and next to the page’s name in a list of bookmarks. Browsers that support a tabbed document interface typically show a page’s favicon next to the page’s title. The Microsoft Windows Shell uses favicons to represent “Internet shortcuts” to web pages.
Use
The original means of defining a favicon was by placing a file called favicon.ico in the root directory of a web server. This would then automatically be used in Internet Explorer’s favorites (bookmarks) display. Later, however, a more flexible system was created using HTML to indicate the location of an icon for any given page.
This is achieved by adding a link element to the <head> section of the document as detailed below. In this way any appropriately sized (16×16 pixels or larger) image can be used and, although many still use the ICO format, other browsers (though not Microsoft’s Internet Explorer) now also support the PNG and animated GIF image formats.
However, Microsoft Internet Explorer only truly supports icons that have a legitimate extension of Microsoft Icon Files and that are coded in the icon file format. Many webmasters have changed their preferred image’s extension to .ico without first actually converting them to Microsoft Icon Files. This created a conflict that Microsoft Internet Explorer cannot resolve. Microsoft Internet Explorer will not display the fake icon images.
Most modern browsers implement both methods of Favicon support.
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