From the course: Making Your Site Retina-Ready
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Adding favicons to your pages
From the course: Making Your Site Retina-Ready
Adding favicons to your pages
- Once you have favicons created, you now need to create HTML to add 'em to your pages so that they can be used. In this video, I'll show you how to generate and add the HTML using RealFaviconGenerator.com. Now I'm on the favicons page here, and I scroll down a little bit, and we can see "Add the favicons to your pages." There are several methods to get this to work once we have them. For a long time, we used to just take favicon.ico and put it in our root like we talked about in a previous video, and some browsers would just use it. The second method is to add some code to your pages that point to the favicon. And this was something we'd done for a while, and it worked in, you know, browsers. These days we need to go in and we need to kind of add our own code if you want. There are non-HTML versions of these icons that we can use, meaning if you put apple touch icons an ico file at your root, they will be picked up and they will be utilized by certain devices, browsers, and…
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