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Displaying your own icons in browser tabs: favicons

You may want to display your own customized icon, for example, a logo, on your site's
page tabs when they are displayed in a web browser. Web Designer Premium allows you
to do this by applying the name 'favicon' to your custom tab icon.
To create a 'favicon', draw or drag on to a web page the image that you want to use. The
image can be any size as it will be scaled to the right size automatically when displayed
in a browser.

Click it then click the Names button to the right of the SELECTOR TOOL InfoBar.

In the Names dialog, type 'favicon' into the APPLY NAMES box and click ADD then CLOSE.

Preview your website in your choice of web browser. The easiest way is to click one of
the Preview icons and in the Xara Web Designer Premium preview window, and then
choose one of the web browsers in the top right of the preview window.

Your web page tab is displayed with the custom icon, as shown in the example below.

You can only use one favicon per website. Publish your website and view it to see your
favicon.

Drawing Tools

Web Designer Premium provides all the graphics tools you
need to create just about any graphical object on your page,

as well as a range of pre-designed graphical elements in the
ONLINE CONTENT CATALOG. There are several basic drawing
tools that let you create rectangles, ellipses, regular
polygons, stars or any shape you like.