Placing an icon/logo near the URL form of the BROWSER

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by UnEmployedAfterSchool, Jul 7, 2006.

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    How do you place icon or logo at the Browser URL form. For example:

    LOGO http://forums.digitalpoint.com

    At the top of the browser, where you enter the URL to go to different sites.
     
    UnEmployedAfterSchool, Jul 7, 2006 IP
  2. ServerUnion

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    It's call a "favicon". A quick search of google will get you all the information you need. I know there are many websites that have the faicon generators and code you need to place. Good luck...
     
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  3. NoobieDoobieDo

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    Also,

    I just got my first domain and was interested in the "favicon" also. I wanted it to show up on all my pages across my subdirectories so I had to add this line to the top of my HTML files :

    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/favicon.ico" >
     
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  4. TechnoGeek

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    You have to put a file named "favicon.ico" in your root directory at the server. Just choose an icon that you like from the icon collections that you can find almost anywhere. One example is IcoLib. You can also try these sites:

    www.iconbuffet.com
    www.icongalore.com
    www.iconbase.com
     
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  5. dc dalton

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    You really dont need to put the whole URL in there, just drop the favicon into the root folder and then make the tag like this:


    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" >

    The / means "go to the root folder of this website" so no matter where your file is the browser will find the icon.
     
    dc dalton, Jul 8, 2006 IP