What Is A Favorite Icon

What is a Favorite Icon

A Favorite Icon is the icon which appears next to a favorite in your favorites menu and only works on Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
It must be called favicon.ico and can only be 16x16 pixels with 16 colours

How to make a Favorite Icon
You will need a graphic editing program to make you Icon

open up your Icons program
create a new 16x16 pixel icon with 16 colors and save it as favicon.ico
Upload the file to the root directory of your website eg http://www.design-on-line.co.uk/
If you don't have access to the root directory, then you will have to add the following code in each of your webpages:
<link rel="short cut" href="http://www.design-on-line.co.uk/favicon.ico">
place this in the head of your webpage

just before the body tag
Example
<link rel="short cut" href="http://www.design-on-line.co.uk/favicon.ico"></head><body>

If you have a page which you don't want to have the same book marked icon as the rest of your site, you can link it with a HTML tag
Example
<link rel="shortcut ico" href="http://www.design-on-line.co.uk/web_resource_centre/cgi.icon">
You can reference the name to what ever you've named the icon, if you want more than one favicons for your site

It also works as a hyperlink if you want to use someone else's favicon.
<link ref="shortcut icon" href="http://www.design-on-line.co.uk/favicon.ico">

See Also
Could I design my own web site

Can I have pictures on my web site

Can I sell things over the web

Can I make alteration to my web site

How will people find my web site

What are the benifits of having a web site

What is the Title of a Web Page

What is the Description of a Web Page

What are keywords

What is a Meta Tag

What is a robot.txt file

What is Cloaking

What is ALT Text

Which is the best "Frames or No Frames"

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