Info & Address bar Icon

[poncho]

OK , I'm a total newbie , please excuse my ignorance ! !
How in the &^%&^ do I put an Icon in my address bar like I've seen on so many good sites ??
Also , there's Soooo much good We authoring info on-line , can anyone make suggestions as where to start .. I've only been at this 3-4 weeks and have learned a Ton of stuff but I also crashed my computer formatting my New 60G HD and lost everything I had ...{rats}
I've got most of the basic HTML stuff down , doen some image swapping roll-overs and text roll-overs , goten a couple pop-up menus scripts & just getting into css's , , , now where to go from here ? ?
I want to jump into js but where do I start .
Thanks for the help ..
Andy

[Compguy Pete]

The easiest way is to just put a file in the same directory as your index page...

Name it: favicon.ico

This needs to be an icon file that you can create with a number of programs.

it should be 16x16

[Stefan]

Originally posted by Compguy Pete
The easiest way is to just put a file in the same directory as your index page...

Name it: favicon.ico


Of cource that will usually only work in crappy IE that happily spams every webserver in the world you visit asking for this file, even if it's not there.

To make sure it works also in browsers other then IE add this to your webpages head seaction

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="page.ico">

That way you can even use different icons on different parts of your site if you like.


This needs to be an icon file that you can create with a number of programs.

it should be 16x16


And since we are bringing up differences between browsers the above is only a limitation for IE.
Eg Mozilla will happily accept animated gifs, tranparent PNG or even alpha transparent animated MNG files. They can even be of any size you like, they will be auto autoresized to 16x16 anyway. :)

[poncho]

so do I need a line with :
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="
favicon.ico >
Or , only that line with "myname.ico" ? ?


If you DO look at my page , I over compressed the pics and have since lost the origanals ... I did this with Front page Origanlly , but *&** FP wouldn't do what I wanted it to so I decided I "HAVE TO LEARN" HTML code . Man , did I open a can of worms ....

My first ever page (http://home.cinci.rr.com/poncho)

Andy

[Stefan]

What you have now is

<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://home.cinci.rr.com/poncho/poncho.ico">

and that will make it work in all browsers that support favicons AFAIK :)