Set Icon

[Bing01]

Hi everyone.

I just finished drawing my company's icon but I don't know how to have it appear in the favorites, when people set my web site in their favorites.
Can anyone help?

Thanks

[DCH]

Hi Bing

I know how to do it for IE5.0 browsers onwards, anyone using NS or Mozilla etc will not be able to see the icon, but it won't cause problems. The tutorial I learn't it from is here:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/01/18/index1a.html?tw=design

There must be ways of adding it to NS (possibly 6.0 upwards), I'll dig through my references and see, but I'm sure there's a whizz out there who knows...wheres pyro when you need them

Cheers

Cham

[Robert Wellock]

Basically you create an *.ico file 16x16 pixels in dimension with 4-bit colour, and add the following:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yoursite.com/youricon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

If you are using a technically superior browser like Mozilla you also have the option of using:

<link rel="icon" href="http://www.yoursite.com/youricon.png" type="image/png">

Micro$oft has bugs regarding displaying the icon when cache is cleared.