I just discovered Favicons, and thought I'd share because they are a useful branding tool (and I think they are cool!).
Favicons are those little icons that appear to the left of the url in the url box at the top of your browser when you visit a site, and at the top of tabs. You've probably noticed at some point that Gaia's favicon is a little face.
To make one of these appear in your site, simply create a 16x16 pixel image (pixel art is good for this one) and save it as favicon.ico . You must name it exactly this for it to work. Then upload your favicon into the root folder of your site (unfortunately I don't think you can do this with free sites...).
The favicon should now appear in your browser when you (or anyone else) visits your site. xd
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:46 am
Oooh I've always wondered about that!!! Thank you! biggrin Now I have to think of one to make for my site..... xp
^_^ I always wondered how people did that! yay! now I know! ^__^ goes to try it ^_-
:edit: odd... I did what you said and it didn't work... unfortunatly... it may just be the odd host I have...
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 4:12 pm
Raine Dragon
:edit: odd... I did what you said and it didn't work... unfortunatly... it may just be the odd host I have...
You have to put right in the root folder. I put it in my html folder (the only one thats actually visible on the internet), but it has to be in the root one sweatdrop
Cool! I didn't know you could do that, I thought I had to use the same one for all my sites at that address... cool! Very helpful 3nodding
Well, I think you can only have one per root address, like I host a lot of different sub sites on my domain, but only one can have a favicon. It sucks, but since there is only one name for the graphic, that's how it has to be.
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 4:06 am
retrokitty
Chisa
Cool! I didn't know you could do that, I thought I had to use the same one for all my sites at that address... cool! Very helpful 3nodding
Well, I think you can only have one per root address, like I host a lot of different sub sites on my domain, but only one can have a favicon. It sucks, but since there is only one name for the graphic, that's how it has to be.
Ah, damn. I was all excited there. I guess I'll have to make more of a universal one...
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