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If you’re curious about where your favicon is displayed, just follow along, and you’ll find out.

To do this, I’ll give you the URLs of two websites. They are two of my favorites, but most of you have probably never been to either one before. If you have, then choose the one you have never visited. That way you can see the favicon appearing suddenly, when the browser finds and displays it. Here are the URLs, but don’t go there yet! Wait a minute!

URL1: www.stormcarib.com

URL2: www.triddlers.com

1st Place: the Address Bar

All right. Let’s go. The first thing I want you to do is open a new tab ( or new window if you have to ). Now type in your URL in the Address Bar. Look quick – there’s the favicon! It’s just to the left of what you just typed in.

2nd Place: the Tab Bar

Are you using a tabbed browser, like Firefox or a later version of Internet Explorer? Then you should also see the favicon to the left of the website title in the tab bar.

3rd Place: Bookmarks or Favorites

If you’ve never been to this URL before, it obviously won’t be in your bookmarks yet. So click on ‘Favorites’, then ‘Add to Favorites’. Now just click ‘Add’. Go back to ‘Favorites’, and you should see your new favorite at the bottom of the list, with its favicon just to the left.

If you recently created your own favicon, but you can’t find it in any of its locations, don’t worry! This is a frequent occurrence. Keep reading:

1) Clear your cache.

2) If you still can’t find your favicon, close and reopen your browser.

3) If that still doesn’t work, there are only two possibilities left: a) Your browser doesn’t support favicons, which is highly unlikely, or b) You don’t really HAVE a favicon!

Just because is says ‘favicon.ico’, that doesn’t make it a REAL favicon. Make sure that you create a favicon properly, so that it can work properly. See below for more information.

I can show you where to go to create a favicon to use on your own website. Visit my blog at ScriptsForYourWebsite.com for lots of great easy-to-use plugins and scripts for your own blog.