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web site icon in address bar, what is it called and how do I do it?

address bar icon's name

OCShooters

12:59 pm on Jul 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

Web site icon in address bar, what is it called and how do I do it?

jbinbpt

1:01 pm on Jul 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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It's called favicon. You need a icon making program. Make the icon and load it into your html directory.

jbinbpt

1:02 pm on Jul 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Search on favicon in google.

JamesR

12:23 am on Jul 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

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www.favicon.com is the official site

editor_qbp

7:03 pm on Jul 28, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Actually you can make the icon in any graphics program, then load and resave it in Irfan View.

Ryan8720

4:02 pm on Aug 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

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You need to add:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />

to the head of your page. Make sure the href is the correct path to the icon.

jdMorgan

4:53 pm on Aug 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

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And to take care of non-IE browsers as well:


<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/youricon.ico">
<link rel="icon" href="images/youricon.ico" type="image/ico">

Jim

caNative

11:50 pm on Aug 16, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Be sure to post the favicon.ico file to the root of your site and not as an external file.