URL Icon Query

Bertrude · Post by **Bertrude** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:35 am

Sometime when I surf the web, some pages display a little icon in the address bar of my browser, before the URL.

Does anyone know how you get a page to have a little custom icon in this place?

area · Post by **area** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:50 pm

Stick a favicon.ico in the root directory of your website.

Raijin Z · Post by **Raijin Z** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:00 pm

It doesn't have to be an ico file. Most servers will recognize GIF, PNG, and JPG as valid favorites icons. With GIF and PNG, you can have transparency, but I wouldn't try it with a 24bit PNG.

My site uses my hex skull insignia. Heil Machine Empire.

impetus · Post by **impetus** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:21 pm

It's called a favicon. It's been awhile, but I think I used this tool to make the one on screamcast

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

Do a google search for "favicon.ico" if you need more help.

Vchat20 · Post by **Vchat20** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:30 pm

Raijin Z wrote:It doesn't have to be an ico file. Most servers will recognize GIF, PNG, and JPG as valid favorites icons. With GIF and PNG, you can have transparency, but I wouldn't try it with a 24bit PNG.

My site uses my hex skull insignia. Heil Machine Empire.

last i remember, for cross-browser support, it needed to be a favicon.ico file in the root folder. for standard image formats, only firefox (possibly the whole mozilla suite. not sure) supports the feature and you need to add a line of code to your pages to get it to show.

impetus · Post by **impetus** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:51 pm

yep. Do yourself a favor and make it a .ico file.

Bertrude · Post by **Bertrude** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:05 pm

Thanks guys.

It's all worked a treat. Yay!