Favorites icon - Adding an icon to a bookmarked site

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Wow! That is all? Could you recommend an image program for making icons. I don't think I can make them in Photoshop.

Thanks again.
Lisa

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You can get a trial version of an icon program called Microangelo 98 from ZDNet at:

http://www.hotfiles.com

Remember, the icon needs to be 16x16 pixels and use a 16 color palette. You can configure these settings with the program. Smiling

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John Pollock
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Awesome, great post with very useful info!

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Hello. Can anyone tell me how do I add an icon to my page for bookmarking. Example: The Web Designer Resource site http://www.pageresource.com/

If you bookmark this site in IE. an icon/gif is stored in your favorites menu. How can I do this too?

Thank you
Lisa.

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I think i know what you mean, try my site and let me know if thats what you are talking about.

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http://www.blacklightdesign.com

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Yes! when I bookmark your site I get the icon in my Favorites. How do I do this for my site?

You have a very nice site! I love the art.

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its actually so easy you already know the answer! Smiling

All you do is create an icon for yourself and name it "favicon.ico". Put it in the same directory as all your html files and away you go!

Good Luck!

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http://www.blacklightdesign.com

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Those of you that have made it work, can you please tell us the exact proceedure? I have made an icon, but it still does not show. Also, I have seen some sites where the icon appears to the left of the URL in the address field. How go about that?

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/ Gent
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I have an article explaining it on my site, see:

http://www.pageresource.com/zine/favie.htm

Hope it helps,

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it didn't work for me... I made the icon (favicon.ico) and uploaded it but no icon in the favs folder... is there something I missed?

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What browsers will support this feature?

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thank you very much, I was going to ask this question when i had the time Smiling

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Thanks,

I tried it out and got the Favourite thing to work, but it still didn't show beside the URL, until I had reloaded a few times.

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Only IE5 uses this icon. This was undocumented by Microsoft and became known when the error messages started to appear on server logs.

Microangelo did a great job for me. Think out what you want as a 16x16 pixel image cannot convey much information.

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To lloydhass-

As mentioned in an earlier post on this thread, Microsoft hadn't even documented it as part of IE5 so I imagine the future of these "favicons" is up in the air as far as the browser "wars" are concerned... it's a nice feature.

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