{"id":116,"date":"2007-02-23T21:55:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T11:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2007\/02\/23\/designing-a-favicon-for-your-site\/"},"modified":"2007-02-26T18:50:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T08:50:19","slug":"designing-a-favicon-for-your-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2007\/02\/23\/designing-a-favicon-for-your-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing a favicon for your site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When designing a favicon (favicon.ico) for your site, you should try to incorporate at least one of the followings:<\/p>\n<p>- Site logo<br \/>\n- Letter(s) that represent your domain name\/site name<br \/>\n- Mini icon\/picture that represents your site (eg: if your site is about beauty products, you might want to use an icon of a lipstick)<br \/>\n- Site color scheme <\/p>\n<p><strong>xHTML Code<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>&lt;link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/favicon.ico\" \r\ntype=\"image\/x-icon\" \/&gt;<\/pre>\n<p> OR<\/p>\n<pre>&lt;link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.example.com\/favicon.ico\" \/&gt;<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Favicon Tools<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.html-kit.com\/e\/favicon.cgi?m=1\">FavIcon from Pics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tools.dynamicdrive.com\/favicon\/\">Dynamic Drive FavIcon Generator<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.favicongenerator.com\/\">Favicon Generator<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/favicon2dots.com\/\">favicon2dots (convert your favicon to dot's like 3Ddot image)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[tags]favicon, favourite icon, ico, icons, design, branding[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When designing a favicon (favicon.ico) for your site, you should try to incorporate at least<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Designing a favicon for your site | Tech Leadership Advice &amp; 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