How do you create a small icon in the url bar of browsers ?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by Camay123, Apr 26, 2007.

Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.
0
  1. #1
    How do you create a small personalized icon besfore the url to show in every browser ?
     
    Camay123, Apr 26, 2007 IP
  2. obenix

    obenix Eats an apple a day......

    Messages:
    2,236
    Likes Received:
    180
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #2
    Are you referring to a favicon?
     
    obenix, Apr 26, 2007 IP
  3. Camay123

    Camay123 Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    3,423
    Likes Received:
    86
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    160
    #3
    Yes, thx.

    Patrick
     
    Camay123, Apr 26, 2007 IP
  4. EliteCollectables

    EliteCollectables Peon

    Messages:
    58
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #4
    I just did this too my site, it is quite easy to do...

    Frist make your 16x16 mini icon upload to your main directory, name it favicon.ico

    in your main index above the <head> place the this

    <LINK REL="icon" HREF="http://www. your ural to icon/favicon.ico" TYPE="image/ico">

    <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http:// www. your ural to icon . com /favicon.ico">


    And that is it your done.... but you need to rename it your image before you up load it.

    Thanks
    Elite Collectables
     
    EliteCollectables, Apr 26, 2007 IP
  5. diarmuid

    diarmuid Peon

    Messages:
    285
    Likes Received:
    13
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #5
    Depending on your webhost, you may not need to actually insert any code into your documents in order to create the icon. I have only tried it with Bluehost, but on some hosts you can just upload an icon after naming it favicon.ico.

    As I say it might depend on your host, but if you can do it, it'd be slightly easier than having to create extra HTML.

    Cheers
    Diarmuid
     
    diarmuid, Apr 26, 2007 IP
  6. AffiliateD

    AffiliateD Guest

    Messages:
    79
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #6
    cool, i was wondering that myself
     
    AffiliateD, Apr 26, 2007 IP
  7. Blame Me

    Blame Me Guest

    Messages:
    162
    Likes Received:
    9
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #7
    Blame Me, Apr 26, 2007 IP
  8. rahulmax

    rahulmax Member

    Messages:
    30
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    41
    #8
    i've seen animated gif files as favicons... like favicon.gif !!
     
    rahulmax, Apr 26, 2007 IP
  9. Rasczak

    Rasczak Peon

    Messages:
    131
    Likes Received:
    4
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #9
    of course you have to be careful when offering this 'feature' to a client - IE does NOT support favicons 100%...
     
    Rasczak, Apr 26, 2007 IP
Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.