Icon of a webpage.....

**Niv Hamagniv** · 07-21-2008, 11:39 AM

Hi,

Background:
when u add a webpage to your favorites, some of the pages have icons.

I'm using this script :
onclick="window.external.AddFavorite('http://www.WEBSITE.com','The Best Ever...');

How do i add an Icon to my web page?

thanx

Niv

**Niv Hamagniv** · 07-21-2008, 11:40 AM

Hi,

Background:
when u add a webpage to your favorites, some of the pages have icons.

I'm using this script :
onclick="window.external.AddFavorite('http://www.WEBSITE.com','The Best Ever...');

How do i add an Icon to my web page?

thanx

Niv

**codeexploiter** · 07-21-2008, 11:47 AM

You need to add the icon image (Favicon) in your site so when the user views or adds the site url then that icon will be perpended before the URL/title.

Below I've mentioned some URLs through you can learn about adding a favicon to your website

http://www.digitalsurvivors.com/archives/000434.php
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

**GarethMc** · 07-21-2008, 11:48 AM

You need to create an icon called favicon.ico...

The following instructions were taken off http://www.hypergurl.com/favicon.html:

To make your own favicon, first make a graphic 16x16 pixels in no more than 16 colors. Save it as a bmp.

You will then need a graphics program which can change a bmp into an icon. I recommend Irfanview.

It should only take a couple of minutes to download!
Use this program to change your bmp image into an icon. Name it favicon.ico then upload it to your server.

You then need to add the following code to the <head> tag of your html :

HTML Code:

<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico">

**codeexploiter** · 07-21-2008, 12:22 PM

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

**DimX** · 07-21-2008, 01:45 PM

You need to have the following in the head section of your page:

HTML Code:

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

or you can just put a file named favicon.ico into the root directory of your site, in which case most(?) browsers will detect it automatically.

**TheJoshMan** · 07-21-2008, 10:10 PM

Another note to keep in your noggin is that your favicon more than likely won't show up right away. It can take up to a month (not likely) before it starts showing up when you and/or other people start viewing your site.

So don't think you did something wrong, just give it some time.

**Niv Hamagniv** · 07-22-2008, 06:50 AM

you've been very helpfull.

niv

**Medyman** · 07-22-2008, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by Nyne Lyvez

It can take up to a month (not likely) before it starts showing up when you and/or other people start viewing your site.

That's only with IE (especially pre-IE7), of course. Firefox should cache the icon right away. IE7 is much better with handling favicons than it's predecessors, but expect for it to take a while (probably closer to 14 days than a month).

FYI: Firefox 3 (not sure this was supported pre Fx3), now supports any image type for the favicon.