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Hey everyone!

You know when you look at a browser URL and you see that little picture to the left of it (in webdevelopers its a yellow thing with WD in it) how do you put one onto your site? and how big do you need the image to be, along with filetype?

thanks!

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@MstrBobMay 11.2004 — I have yet to use a shortcut icon, but I've seen them around. Usually it's this tibit of HTML

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

They all seem to be .ico, but I'm not sure they have to be. 16px X 16px the norm? Anyone know anything more, feel free to interject yourself.
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@JonaMay 11.2004 — [font=arial]LOL. Interject... You sound like my cousin! :p (No offense.)

Actually you'll probably also want to include type="x-image/icon" in your LINK tag, and only use the /> instead of the > at the end if you're using an XHTML DTD. I'm pretty sure either .GIF or .ICO files can be used as icons. You might want to check out the icon-making program called, "[url=http://www.icon-maker.com/]Icon-Maker[/url]."[/font]
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@MstrBobMay 11.2004 — Oh, yes, well, atually I got that from the php.net website. Well, listen to Jona, he's right (usually). Anywho, on a side note, this doesn't work in Internet Explorer, does it? All I ever get is the I.E. icon.
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@The_CheatMay 11.2004 — [i]Originally posted by MstrBob [/i]

[B]Oh, yes, well, atually I got that from the php.net website. Well, listen to Jona, he's right (usually). Anywho, on a side note, this doesn't work in Internet Explorer, does it? All I ever get is the I.E. icon. [/B][/QUOTE]

it should work in ie 6, however, it doesn't always work in my experience.
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@CardboardHammerMay 11.2004 — [i]Originally posted by The Cheat [/i]

[B]it should work in ie 6, however, it doesn't always work in my experience. [/B][/QUOTE]


I believe that one of the security patches removed support for that from IE. Ironically, the butterfly icon at MSN shows up for other browsers, but not for patched IE.
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@rhsundergroundMay 11.2004 — [i]Originally posted by MstrBob [/i]

[B]Oh, yes, well, atually I got that from the php.net website. Well, listen to Jona, he's right (usually). Anywho, on a side note, this doesn't work in Internet Explorer, does it? All I ever get is the I.E. icon. [/B][/QUOTE]

IE only shows the favicon if it's saved in your favorites folder. otherwise it shows what it wants to show.
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@JonaMay 11.2004 — [font=arial]I've had Web sites with favicons bookmarked, and they've never worked for me in IE; the only time I ever saw the favicon in IE was when I went back.

By the way, Neczy, another site is http://favicon.com/. ? [/font]
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@rhsundergroundMay 11.2004 — [i]Originally posted by The Cheat [/i]

[B]it should work in ie 6, however, it doesn't always work in my experience. [/B][/QUOTE]

well now that i look at it again (i haven't really used IE in awhile. score opera!), it isn't showing up. ? it used to work....
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