What is mean by Favicons?

Favicon - which is the short form of Favorites Icons. These are small designs which is used in the URL bar of a browser and in the favorite menus.



These favicons are used only to attract visitors and to give website a small additional beauty.
Favicons are going to do nothing for webmasters if they think in SEO point of view.
Most of the webmasters use their logo to make this favicon. It resembles their logo. Using this will give visitors a cool look.

Favicons becomes more popular when started using Internet Explorer. It gives some extra look when the Address bar and the Favorites folder carries this icons. Later on all browsers like Mozila, Netscape and some browsers supports this according to their Interface.
In the forth coming post I will explain the uses and how we can design this favicons.