how do you get an image in the address bar?

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how do you get an image in the address bar?

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some sites change the regular IE or Netscape image to there own custom one, anyone know how to do that?
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find a site that has one. click on view source and look in there meta tags, you'll one called favicon or something like that.
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i did a quick googl.com search and looked over a couple of the results. nothing super stellar but enough to get you going: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U ... gle+Search
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search for favicon.ico
These are small images stored in / of your webserver.
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u mean like this

http://www.bohemeinteractive.com.au/

It only works in IE if you book mark it. If you clear your cache it stops working. You then have to bookmark the page again. In Mozilla and Netscape it works all the time.


You put this in the head section of the page.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="boheme16.ico">

You need an icon editor to make your icon (look in tucows.com). The icon needs to be 16*16 pixels and only 16 colours pallette is allowed.
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Simply design a 16x16 bmp, save it as "favicon.ico", and store it in your main directory.
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sweet thanks.
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