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Using a Favicon
A favicon is a small 16 pixel symbol that appears next to
the name of your web page in someone’s IE location bar and
bookmarks, should they bookmark your page. It is a visual
link to your site. The biggest problem with favicons
is that they reside in the Temporary Internet Files
folder. If the user cleans this file routinely, your
file will still be bookmarked, but the favicon will be
lost.
In order for IE to see it you need to save the favicon as
favicon.ico to your root directory in your web. IE-5
automatically looks for a "favicon.ico" in the top
level. You do not have to "call" it as long as it
has the proper name, which is "favicon.ico". There
are several freeware programs available to help you track who is
bookmarking your page, such as Freecode
and FavIcon
Tracker.
If you name your favicon something other than "favicon.ico",
you will need to put a link in the header of your HTML -- you
need to add <link rel="shortcut icon "href="yourfavicon.ico">
to the <head> of any page that you wish to have your
favicon associated with. To insert a favicon in Front
Page, go to FILE>IMPORT>ADD FILE and type in the path
to your favicon.ico.
To create your favicon, you can install
a plugin to Paint Shop Pro, download a Windows freeware
called Icon
Maker or purchase IconForge.
There are a couple of rules about
creating a favicon. It can only be in a choice of 256
colours and it must be 16 x 16 pixels.
You can find tutorials at WDVL
If you already have a 16 x 16 bitmap you would like to
use, download a freeware
program called BMP2ICO Bitmap to Icon - it will take
your 16x16 bitmap and convert it to the icon file format
correctly. Irfanview
is an amazing free application which does far more than just
create/convert icons - download it and see.
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