How to change a website icon

The shape of the website and its perception by visitors depend on many components: design of the page, contents, special effects. The small picture in a browser window – an icon - too is important. How to change an icon of the website and to add attractiveness and identity to your website? Instruction 1. At first prepare a new icon for your website. Make it by means of the special websites. Load the image necessary to you on the website designer of icons. Click creation of an icon, and it - before you, in the necessary ico format, the standard sizes. Create in addition icons of the bigger size – they will well look as labels on a desktop. The icon is displayed, in addition to a browser window, in Favorites or in Bookmarks, in results of delivery by search engines. The standard icon is by default displayed. It either an icon of the browser, or an icon of the company hosting on which site the website is installed. 2. Usually the icon is stored in the main directory, it is www or public_html. To change an old icon it is necessary to load a new icon into one of the specified folders. Make it by means of FTP of the client or by means of the file manager of your hosting provider. If the system submits inquiry for need of replacement of the old file for new - confirm replacement. 3. That changes became effective, clean a browser cache. But even time that updates became effective is required after that. So, in results of output of search engines the new icon will be displayed at least in a week. 4. If at your website the samopisny engine, is required to prescribe you independently path to an icon between tags of head and / head. It looks so: link type= "" image/x-icon"" rel= "" icon"" href= ""http://имя_вашего_сайта/favicon.ico" link type= "" image/x-icon"" rel= "" shortcut icon" of" href= "of "http://имя_вашего_сайта/favicon.ico" New icon – as a new step in development of your website. It will be that designating symbol on which visitors will learn your website even before opening of any its page.