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Zalt4n
03-14-2005, 08:08 AM
Okay, I'm not exactly sure what these images are called, but in Opera, on most websites, there is a little image (usually the logo of the website), up to the left of the address bar. (E.g. on these forums there is the green HostMatrix box-thing.)

Is anyone able to explain how to get images there?

Thank you.

I'm not sure exactly which section which this thread should go in, but I think it would be HTML, so I posted it here.
Sage Tech
03-14-2005, 08:52 AM
You need to create a favicon.ico file. The way we did this for HM was to use the tool at http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/ to create one and scale it from an existing image.
Smoky
03-14-2005, 11:07 AM
Also if your running Linux there are icon editors on there if you installed them,
also there are freeware icon editors around for you to use. If you need to know a name ask me and il tell you later (im not at home atm)
toozoo
03-14-2005, 01:24 PM
Once you have created the image file the way Sage Tech described (with a filename of favicon.ico), place the image in the same directory as your webpage and add the following to the <head> section of your page:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >

/emily
Zalt4n
03-14-2005, 05:31 PM
Ah, thank you very much.

What browsers support favicons?
Tim
03-14-2005, 10:19 PM
Most of them do, or at least the popular ones (FireFox, IE, Netscape... etc.) And even if a certain browser didn't support them, it would simply be ignored and not have any effect on anything :)
Zalt4n
03-15-2005, 02:03 AM
Thank you. :)

It's weird, because I never noticed them in my past when I was using IE or Firefox, but I noticed them almost instantly as soon as I got Opera.
SkullDevil11
03-16-2005, 10:17 PM
You need to create a favicon.ico file. The way we did this for HM was to use the tool at http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/ to create one and scale it from an existing image.
Thanks very much! :D I was always wondering how to do that.