In internet explorer on some sites they show little icons to the left of the URL address bar and when doing bookmarks. My question is how do you get icon on to your url when someone types it in to visit you website or how do you get it to show your icon when your website is saved in Favs .....
You need to design a graphic and save it as favicon.ico and upload it to the root of your website, you don't have to code it in as the browser will grab it automatically so long as you've uploaded it and given it the correct name (favicon.ico), not sure about older browsers.
There is a header tag that you can add to the HTML to help on its pickup, particularly with older browsers: <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> The file does need to be an icon rather than gif/ jpg etc for full support - if you google it you will come across a number of free online and downloadable tools to convert image files into icons
Or you could just use Gimp or Paint to convert the image to a GIF rather than downloading some specific software, where all it does is convert gifs. You can always look around and use your resources. Dr Small
Favicons are supposed to be Icons not Gifs though and so for maximum compatibility with older browsers an icon file should be used and as far as I am aware GIMP doesnt support .ico files
with a command-loine tool (I guess they're assuming GIMPers are all Linux users) you can actually make an .ico with GIMP. You have to save in a raw format with .pnm (or .p-whatever-m) and then use the command-line tool to convert it. Tool is called ppmtowinicon.
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