favicon - how?

[Kbee]

Hello

Wondered how to make a favicon...I've made one in photoshop, saved it as a psd, opened it in graphic converter 4.6 for mac, fiddled with it and saved it as a windows ico. Placed it on my DW 8 site, uploaded it....trouble is it DOES work on FF and Opera 9 on my mac and only Opera 9 on my PC, not on IE 7, FF or Netscape (mac or PC). So how can I get a favicon to work on the above browsers? Also anyone know best way to adjust settings in Graphic Converter to optimize this favicon? Maybe this is one and the same question...

Thanks
KB

[Pixel-Artist]

put these 2 in between head tags

<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

change the href to suit you

[Kbee]

Thanks very much for the reply and help - firstly, my favicon has no page with it, when I try to open it using DW 8 (instead of the application Graphic Converter) DW 8 crashes each time - so what page/html should this favicon have with it...how do I get a html with/for it?

Thanks
KB

[Pixel-Artist]

Put

<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

on the page you want the fav icon to show up on

[Kbee]

Well Firefox and Opera 9 read this favicon but not IE 6 or 7 on PC nor netscape or Safari on MAC.

http://www.enhancedwireless.net/index.html

If you have IE 6/7 or Safari can you see it?

Any thoughts on a fix?

Thanks much
KB

[Kbee]

cleared the cache on netscape - it works now, nothing seems to enable safari on my mac to load the favicon - pic 1 is safari load, pic 2 is proper load (Opera and others).

How do you clear the cache on IE 7? that's the only browser on my pc which doesn't load the favicon.

KB

[Kbee]

had to trash all folders in users/safari/library/icons and restart G5 and now safari displays my new favicon...

KB