Genecks Posted May 28, 2006 Posted May 28, 2006 When I bookmark a website in Mozilla Firefox, I notice there is a small icon (avatar?) logo next to the name. The areas of concern are circled in red. How could I obtain the same result with my website when someone bookmarks it?
reor Posted May 28, 2006 Posted May 28, 2006 Those are called favicons. You can add one by creating (uploading) a favicon.ICO or favicon.GIF file inside your site's directory. Put this inside your <head> tag: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/ico"> EDIT: You can put any URL in place of "favicon.ico" (like: http://www.geocities.com/outrage_from_hell/favicon.ico)
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted May 29, 2006 Posted May 29, 2006 Ideally you'd use this: <link rel="icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> because IE and Mozilla do it different ways (IE does it the second way, contrary to standards).
the tree Posted May 29, 2006 Posted May 29, 2006 But really, you don't need either. If you have a file called favicon.ico in the same directory; your browser will find it depending on what mood it is in.
KLB Posted May 29, 2006 Posted May 29, 2006 The only time I use the '<link rel="icon".....' comment is if I want to use different icons on different sections of the site. Otherwise I simply drop a "favicon.ico" file into the root directory as described above. As long as the "favicon.ico" file is placed in the root directory in this way most browsers will automatically find it. For those who use Photoshop CS2 they can find free plugin for Photoshop that allows one to save graphics files as ICO files. My advice is to create them as 32x32 images and convert them to indexed color with no more than 32 colors. This can significantly reduce the file size.
Genecks Posted June 1, 2006 Author Posted June 1, 2006 Automatically find it? Are you saying most browsers look through the root director to find this file, in other words, I don't have put it on an individual page?
bascule Posted June 1, 2006 Posted June 1, 2006 Yep, they do a recursive search throughout the entire path. This is because IE implemented it first (it was originally an icon that would only show up when you bookmarked a site, i.e. added it to your favorites) and that's the behavior Microsoft chose, so everyone copied it
the tree Posted June 1, 2006 Posted June 1, 2006 That's why, in most server error logs, you'll find a bazzilion 404s from browsers looking for www_root/favicon.ico.
KLB Posted June 1, 2006 Posted June 1, 2006 That's why, in most server error logs, you'll find a bazzilion 404s from browsers looking for www_root/favicon.ico. That's how I first learned about favicon.ico. Years ago when Microsoft first implemented it, I started to notice 404s for favicon.ico, so I investigated to find out what it was.
CanadaAotS Posted June 1, 2006 Posted June 1, 2006 But really, you don't need[/u'] either. If you have a file called favicon.ico in the same directory; your browser will find it depending on what mood it is in. hahaha yah "depending on what mood it is in"... I think my browser may be going through a bout of depression at the moment... lmao.
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