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mosespatrader · Mar 6, 2003, 08:59 AM

Just wondering if antbody knows how to make an icon appear in the url bar when someone vists my site. Just like the icon I am seeing right now on the macnn.com forums site.

thanks.

Developer · Mar 6, 2003, 10:28 AM

Create a 16x16 pixel image and save it as Windows icon in GraphicConverter, with the name "favicon.ico"
Put the icon at the root of your website (e. g. http://www.apple.com/favicon.ico )

Moonray · Mar 7, 2003, 05:04 AM

GraphicConverter does not produce 100% compatible .ico icons; I've seen some browsers not displaying them. Specialized icon editors (like Iconographer, IconBuilder, and others) will do the job.

The more proper and more widely supported way is to put a link to your icon in the head-section of your HTML-code:
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<LINK REL="shortcut icon" HREF="img/myicon.ico">
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That some browsers look automatically for a file favicon.ico in the root folder was a quick and dirty Microsoft hack producing more 404 errors in logfiles than actually loading icons. This may (hopefully) not be supported any more in future.

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