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[Ozymandias]

Ive noticed some sites have a little icon by the adress in Mozilla Firefox (e.g. a guitar site had a little guitar). I was wondering, could we get something like that for here? Maybe a tiny mug shot of O&M?

[Dr. Doog]

that goes for all browsers. and yes, we should have an icon.

[Ozymandias]

Any idea what size they need to be? Maybe we could have a competition...

[Salad Man]

Well, for comparison, here's Something Awful's favicon:<br><br><a href='http://www.somethingawful.com/favicon.ico' target='_blank'>http://www.somethingawful.com/favicon.i ... ><br>16x16.

[Gizensha]

I'll just note here that to make an icon, you simply need to make an x by x image (in this case, apparantly, 16x16), save it as a bitmap, and rename it to .ico.<br><br>At least, I seem to remember that's how it's done.

[Dr. Doog]

that used to work but nowadays i don't think it will... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ns/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Salad Man]

Ka-ZAM!<br><br><a href='http://www.steven-s.us/upload/store/favicon.bmp' target='_blank'>http://www.steven-s.us/upload/store/fav ... r><br>Just change the extension to ico, I suppose.

[Steve the Pocket]

<!--QuoteBegin-Gizensha+Sep 12 2004, 12:45 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Gizensha @ Sep 12 2004, 12:45 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I'll just note here that to make an icon, you simply need to make an x by x image (in this case, apparantly, 16x16), save it as a bitmap, and rename it to .ico. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>I don't think that's all. In my experience, it tends to involve using a program like <a href='http://www.microangelo.us' target='_blank'>Microangelo</a> to actually change the format itself. But then there's still the issue of where to put it so the browser will know to use it.

[Foxchild]

Actually, one DID use to be able to just change the extension. I did it for a window i programed years ago. I don't know if that still aplies though, this was a Win 95 computer

[Tavis]

I recall some sites use a meta tag in the header to indicate the location of the icon to use when one is available... as for the bitmap or icon requirements, I don't believe that will be as important as choosing an image.<br><br>Sayy....

[Foxchild]

heheh, on it <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Archaemic]

<link rel='icon' href='favicon.ico' type='image/icon'><br>That works. Replace image/icon with the correct MIME Type, of course, and favicon.ico with the location of the image. <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="images/icon.png"> is what's on my website, and it works<br><br>However, what's better is to put a file called favicon.ico in the root directory (http://definecynical.mancubus.net/favicon.ico in this case) and most browsers will automatically recognize it, no matter where on the website you are. You will need something to convert it to a true ICO, however. I usually use IrfanView.

[Gizensha]

As I mentioned earlier, just renaming the file <i>used</i> to work well enough to get windows to recognise it as an icon. I'm not sure if that would actually work for the web or not, of course, but anyway.