creating custom icons

[juicemaneyebrow]

im putting a website on cd and would like to make a custom icon for the index.html file, whats a good way to do that i have never done it before and i cant find anything that makes sense online. also will it work on pc and mac??

[Jupac]

<img src="to picture" alt="logo" />

[juicemaneyebrow]

do i put that in the head of the index? i cant get it to work. does it have to be an ico file?

[rhsunderground]

you should be able to get all you need at http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

[Tweak4]

If you're putting the web site on CD, the favicon probably won't work. The icons that a computer displays are determined by each computer individually (more specifically by what program the file type is associated with), which you as the developer have no control over...

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

sure the favicon will work on cd, at least on gecko based browsers like FF or NN

[Tweak4]

I'm pretty sure it won't... If you're looking at a site on CD, the first thing you see is a folder/directory with a bunch of files (html, images, etc) in it. The browser doesn't even come in to play. Once you open one of the html files, the browser will pull in the favicon file, and if you bookmark a page, it should show the icon for that, but if you are just looking at the contents of the CD, they'll just show as a file list, with each file using the icon that the particular system has associated with that file extension.
(I'm looking at a backup of one of my sites right now, and the only place I see my favicon is on the favicon.ico file)

The best bet would be to use an autorun.inf file that sets the icon for the CD drive in My Computer to whatever icon you want to use (and optionally launches the site in a browser), but I'm not sure if/how that works on a Mac OS offhand.

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

oh, i thought he was talking about the favicon that appears in gecko based browsers next to the URL on the adress bar or next to the title on tabs, or on bookmarks..