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How do I get a little icon to appear in favourites?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 7:48 am
by Darkhorse
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?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 7:58 am
by devork
just place
Favicon.ico (your icon name should be this)
in directory

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 8:19 am
by Fredix
I also add

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<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico" />
into the head section

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:38 am
by Gen-ik
It's better to use..

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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>
..for browser compatibility.

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:41 am
by Gen-ik
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.

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 3:05 pm
by m3mn0n
dont forget it needs to be 16x16 :wink:

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 3:27 am
by twigletmac
Moved to client-side forum - not a PHP question.

Mac

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 8:18 am
by patrikG
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.
I found irfanView very useful for that purpose: http://www.irfanview.com/

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.

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 8:27 am
by vigge89
else, use IconWorkshop (from Axialis)

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 5:03 pm
by uberpolak
I like a programme called bmp2ico (I forget the address, search for it if you want). You can create a graphic in whichever programme you like/are used to, then save it as a bmp and convert.

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 6:33 pm
by Gen-ik
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.