http://www.waveofweb.com/web-design/why-you-should-have-your-own-favicon/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:40:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.waveofweb.com/web-design/why-you-should-have-your-own-favicon/#comment-25519 Favicons | Social Pollen Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:51:16 +0000 http://www.waveofweb.com/?p=352#comment-25519 [...] There is another, more obscure, reason for using favicon. If you don’t use custom favicon you will get 404 errors in your server log every time one bookmarks your site using IE or everytime someone opens your site using browsers like Firefox or Opera. This is because the browser first requests the server for the custom favicon. If the favicon is not present in the server the browser uses its default icon. And a faviocn.ico 404 Not Found error is created in the log. But there will be no error for your user. He will see your site as it is without any problem. Still if you monitor your error log regularly, remember a favicon of your own can clear lots of the errors. [source] [...] [...] There is another, more obscure, reason for using favicon. If you don’t use custom favicon you will get 404 errors in your server log every time one bookmarks your site using IE or everytime someone opens your site using browsers like Firefox or Opera. This is because the browser first requests the server for the custom favicon. If the favicon is not present in the server the browser uses its default icon. And a faviocn.ico 404 Not Found error is created in the log. But there will be no error for your user. He will see your site as it is without any problem. Still if you monitor your error log regularly, remember a favicon of your own can clear lots of the errors. [source] [...]

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