Favicon Goodness!

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004 at 1727

I seem to have spent today chasing details. Insignificant little things that for some reason have consumed more time than I’d prefer. Todays major end result, the one I can show to you easily, is the “favicon”. Lo, the munky is in the address bar and in your bookmarks. If you still haven’t taken my advice then you may have to delete your old bookmark and make a new one for it to show up. People using decent browsers won’t have a problem.

I think he’s kinda cute.

If any of you out there want to do this to your site, it’s really quite simple. First up, make yourself a 16×16 pixel image in the editor of your choice and save it as a BMP or a GIF. Then go to Chami.com where they’ll kindly turn your BMP or GIF, online, into the required .ICO format for you, for free. Cool eh?

Then you simply upload the favicon.ico file to the same place as your main HTML file and add the following code in the <HEAD> section of your HTML:

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

Simple!

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3 Comment for “Favicon Goodness!”

Zoomer Said this on March 24th, 2004 at 1039
hmm I think I might need to do this aswell.
Shadow_Xj5 Said this on March 29th, 2004 at 0120
rel=”icon” also, so it shows up in the address bar, not just when a fav link is made.
Shadow_Xj5 Said this on March 29th, 2004 at 0120
rel=”icon” also, so it shows up in the address bar, not just when a fav link is made.