When a site is bookmarked..

[ssskaya]

After when I bookmark a page, I sometimes see an icon (of the site) in front of it in the favourites menu of IE.

How can I do the same for my website?

please advice.

Thanks!

[brothercake]

You need an image called "favicon.ico" which must be in ico format, 16x16 and with a 16 colour palette. Just put it in your root directory and it works.

Or, if you don't have access to the root (like you have a subdoman) then you can use something like this on each of your pages:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.domain.com/~site/favicon.ico" />



But you know ... the whole favicon business is very flaky in IE - it's there; not there; works; disappears; comes back again. It's much more stable in mozilla, safari and opera 7 - you don't even have to bookmark the page for it to appear in the address bar :)

[Bosko]

Actually Mozilla and Konqueror can handle favicon's in any image format.
(Konqueror also uses the favicon as it's window icon,which is quite handy actually :) )

[brothercake]

kewl

[ssskaya]

thanks for the answer,..

please clarify one thing:

When uploading it as favicon.ico.:

Do You first save it as a .jpg dile and then just change the extension?

OR

Is there more to it than that?

Thanks!

[A1ien51]

http://www.favicon.com/

[meow]

Originally posted by ssskaya
thanks for the answer,..

please clarify one thing:

When uploading it as favicon.ico.:

Do You first save it as a .jpg dile and then just change the extension?
No, for IE it must be a true icon, .ico. If you don't have a program that can save as .ico try IrfanView. Great image viewer and converts between many formats. Free too. :D

http://www.irfanview.com/

[ssskaya]

thanks for all the help.

all is done and it works.

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just one last question.

it works with my index page.

but not with others which are still in my root directory.

is there anything I can do about it or is this just the way it is?

thanks!

[cg9com]

did you place the <link> tag in each page?

[ssskaya]

no, I did not.

how is that done?

thanks!

[oldcrazylegs]

sorry guys but you do not need to use the link tag. it works just fine without it. all you need to do is upload the favicon.ico to your root directory and then make a favorite of anyone of your pages to test it.

when you click on that favorite the favicon and the url both load into the addressbar. when you go to another page the favicon disappears out of the address bar because that page is not in your favorites and you did not click on it in the favorites.

there is no link tag in my pages
http://dwight.clickthesky.com/