Comments on: Icon help

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:08:54 +0000

You did it! Congratulations, Doug!

By: Snarfie

Snarfie — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:44:51 +0000

Hey! The baghead is up! Way to go, Doug!

By: Bryan K. Fowler

Bryan K. Fowler — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:54:38 +0000

Doug:

I have an easy script that I was running on my site. It will only work in IE-not Firefox. Send me a message if you want and I will forward it to you. Looks great.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:42:49 +0000

In case the HTML formatting doesn’t paste correctly, reference:
http://www.chami.com/tips/Internet/110599I.html

Method 1

This is the easiest method to implement and it will work regardless of the particular page on your site users choose to add to their favorites list. Don’t worry if you don’t have access to your web site root; take a look at the next method.

If you have access to the root of your web site, simply save your icon file as “favicon.ico” there. For example, if your web site is “www.chami.com”, your icon file should be available at “www.chami.com/favicon.ico”. The web browser will look for favicon.ico whenever your site is added to the favorites list and if it is found at the root of your web site, the icon will appear next to the link to your site.

Method 2

If you don’t have access to the root of your web site, you have to add the following tag to your web page so that the browser will know where to look for your icon. Unlike before, this time you can save the icon under any name ending with “.ico” We’ll use the name “logo.ico” and assume that your web site is under the directory “~your_directory”.

Listing #1 : HTML code. Download logo.htm (0.2 KB).

NOTE: Above tag should be inserted in-between the and tags.

By the way, you can specify multiple logos for multiple pages using the second method. Simply save your icons using unique names, such as logo1.ico, logo2.ico, logo3.ico for example, and replace “logo.ico” in the above HTML code with the name of the icon you want to use for any particular page.

By: KB

KB — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:59:44 +0000

You need to take a .jpg icon, reduce it to about 32×32 pixels, and rename the file “favicon.ico” instead of “filename.jpg”. Place this file in the root directory (in this case, “http://www.averyfineline.com/favicon.ico”).

That’s it!

(NOTE: the file extension NEEDS to be “.ico” instead of “.jpg,” otherwise, it won’t pick it up)

By: wv

wv — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:19:21 +0000

Maybe someone has already posted about this, but I think they are called favicons. I tried to find out about those as well for my sites–here is some info:
http://favicon.com/

By: Willie

Willie — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:18:34 +0000

You will need to create a BMP image that is 16 by 16 pixels. Then name it FAVICON.ICO and put it into the root folder of your WEBsite. (The same place your INDEX.HTM goes.)

By: Snarfie

Snarfie — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:53:53 +0000

Not sure about this helping but I did a Google for “image in URL” and came up with these (among others):

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/10901.htm

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/website-design-forum/667-how-do-i-customise-my-sites.html