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You know those tiny icons that appear in the website address section at the top of the browser (like that cute orange bubble that Yedda have right before the http://....?!

How do I make one for my website and make it appear up there? 


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It's called Favicon and here is a great tutorial:

http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon
Posted 2007-01-26T09:28:48Z
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you need to insert to youre code in head:

<head>
  <title>MOR GERSHON</title>
  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.youredomain.com/mor.ico">
  <link rel="icon" href="http://www.youredomain.com/mor.ico" type="image/x-icon">  
 </head>

 

 

 

Posted 2007-01-25T07:06:00Z
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I tried both the method in here and the method Yaniv recommended in his answer to a similar question, and no of them worked - I think the problem is that I tried it with a .gif and not with a .ico. 

which lead me to the next question - what is .ico and how to make one?

Photoshop doesn't have that option when I save a file. 

Posted 2007-01-26T02:38:58Z
 
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I was late for work this morning, because I got stuck in Zeno's paradox.

They're called favicons. You can make them in any graphics program that has the capability of saving files as icons (with the suffix .ico).

There is a plugin that you can download for Photoshop that will enable it to save files in ico format, which you can get on this tutorial page (there is also a nice explanation there about exactly how to create a favicon).

There are also sites on the internet that allow you to upload a gif file and convert it to a favicon. Here is one example of such a site.

 Good luck Smile

Posted 2007-01-26T10:27:51Z
 

Thanks Everyone! Especially Helinus! I used the tutorial and put in a cool dragonfly as a favicon!

 

Thanks for all the help! check out the result here

Posted 2007-01-26T10:52:52Z
 

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