Icons

Is it hard to do ?

[Qraze]

Hi!

I wonder if itīs hard to create an icon to use in the "address"-field in the browser instead of the original one.
I mean. I have seen this but I never found out how to do it.
I donīt want the original icons used in ie for example.

[digitalghost]

If you are talking about the favicon you can get some info here:

[favicon.com...]

DG

[Qraze]

Yes!
Thanks alot. :)

[Brett_Tabke]

Grab the site search - there are dozens of posts about it.
(welcome to the forums.)

[Qraze]

Thanks! :)

[T Suresh Babu]

I have noticed while browsing some sites like yahoo, google, altavista etc... etcc...
that the icon near the address bar changes to their icons. (ie) while browsing yahoo site the ie icon changes to y symbol(red). Not always. Some times it happens.

How does it happens?

Can we create similar icons for our sites also?
If so how to go about it?

[gethan]

In IE the icon appears if its a site that you bookmark (favorite icon = favicon).

In Mozilla you can specify an icon for the browser to use with this little bit of code.

<link rel=icon href='/favicon.ico'>

It's worth putting in that code if you go to the effort of a favicon.ico - newer versions of all the browsers a likely to use it soon.

[bufferzone]

If you want's to make icons I would recommend using Microangelo, it's shareware and a good little tool for this. You can import a .gif to make an icon, pretty cool and very easy

[T Suresh Babu]

I downloaded Micro angelo and created some icons.

Which sized icon sholud be used as the icons for browser address bar (16X16 or 32X32 or 48X48).

And how to make the icon to appear in the web page visitor's browser. any code is there?.....

[mivox]

I think the default is 16x16...

Just name the file "favicon" and save it in the "ico" format... Then upload the favicon.ico file to your website's root directory, and Internet Explorer will find it whenever someone bookmarks your site. :)

[tedster]

Yes, 16x16 is what you need most of all.

But if someone drags a favorite onto their desktop, then it would display at 32x32. The .ico format allows you to include multiple images in one file, and the user's system decides which image to render according to the location of the icon on the desktop.

[Brett_Tabke]

Also, do a "site search" (top menu bar) on "favicon". We've had a couple dozen threads about it.

[T Suresh Babu]

As you said I created a favicon.ico put it in the site root folder.

Now the Icon appear in the address bar.