How do I get a little icon to appear in favourites?
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How do I get a little icon to appear in favourites?
how do I make a little logo appear in the favourites when visitors want to save my site? This site has it and I was wondering how you do it?
- Fredix
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I also add
into the head section
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<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico" />It's better to use..
..for browser compatibility.
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<head>
<link href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" rel="icon" />
<link href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" rel="shortcut icon" />
</head>- twigletmac
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I found irfanView very useful for that purpose: http://www.irfanview.com/Gen-ik wrote:Oh, and by the way to will need to try and hunt down a program that will let you create and save .ICO files. You can't just rename a .gif or .jpeg to .ico because it won't work.
Fantastically easy to change graphic-formats.
It doesn't handle transparency, though - if I recall correctly, I downloaded a demo of a commercial program called something like "MicroAngelo" or the like to do that.
There's also a free plug-in for Photoshop which lets you save .ico files. I use it myself and it's very handy.
For Windows
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/dl.ph ... -1.6b2.zip
For Power Mac
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/dl.ph ... -1.6b2.sit
Don't forget to create a 16x16 image with no more than 256 colours in it.
The best way is to create a gif file first (they can't have more than 256 colours) save it.. then load it back into Photoshop and save it out as a .ico file. Nice 'n easy.
For Windows
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/dl.ph ... -1.6b2.zip
For Power Mac
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/dl.ph ... -1.6b2.sit
Don't forget to create a 16x16 image with no more than 256 colours in it.
The best way is to create a gif file first (they can't have more than 256 colours) save it.. then load it back into Photoshop and save it out as a .ico file. Nice 'n easy.