Icon Help Please

[superams]

Hi To You All,
A real newbie here so please forgive me if this is a silly question.

I have searched the forum but not found any relevant info so if someone could please point me in the right direction.

How do you go about putting the little image in the address bar before the url and how do you do the same with the little image in the favourites folder.

Many Thanks in advance.

Diane.

 

[web guru]

This quite a good question, it is know as favicon. If you create an icon or get one from the web. The image must be a 16x16 pixel designs. Then save it in your root directory on your web server as favicon.ico. Now every time you go to your site the icon will appear and it will also appear in the favourites directory. There is one catch however your host provider must support favicons or else you wont be able to do it!! Go to http://www.favicon.com/ for more info, hope this helps!!

 

[superams]

Hi Web Guru,
Thanks for the info that should keep me busy for a while.
Just going to have a look the site you pointed out.

Many Thanks.

Diane.

 

[tuppis]

The only thing youll have to do is to put the icon file (in .ico format) in the root directory of your site and name it "favicon.ico". Yes, it HAS to be just "favicon.ico".

 

[InteractAsia]

and when someone bookmarks it, then it will be there the next time they return

 

[identity_00]

You'll have to find a special software to do that.
Cant remember what I used.

 

[tuppis]

nope... there's no software needed. As I said: just but the icon file (named "favicon.ico") in the root dir and the web browser'll find it.

I know it works. Have tested it on both Netscape and IE.

 

[adam_uk]

also works with firebird

 

[identity_00]

I dont think you can save a file as .ico in photoshop -
but havent used it in awhile.

 

[Lord]

Oh thats cool, so it'll work with other people's bookmarks too?

 

[identity_00]

yea it works. Sometimes it can have some problems though.
Google has one..bookmark it and try.

 

[Anthony]

You can rename a gif file after uploading it.

 

[RakeshRaja]

there are lots of icon createtion softwares..

thus you should create bitmap [bmp] files for it and you can then rename it as .ico

and you must give it name "favicon.ico" and place it in root.