Favicons

They're everywhere! Short for 'Favorite Icon', they are the little images (icons) that appear in your bookmarks, in tabs, and often in the address bar, associated with a specific website. See this Wikipedia article for more details about them. If you look at your bookmarks (favorites, shortcuts), you see most sites have one. And now NygrenLearning has its own favicon, too! There is a ton of info on creating and using favicons, but most of it is just how to use any image file as your icon. If you want to create a proper, multiple image icon (.ICO) file that supports transparency, it takes some real digging.

Look at the NygrenLearning website, and you will see that I succeeded. If you want to learn how I did it, just leave a comment or shoot me an email.

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