Q For Dien Re Your Favicon Ico

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by MichaelRoss

Dien,

HOW did you add the Favicon so it displays in the location as well as the Title in the fireforx tab?

Hi Michael,

I don't think I did anything special... I think it might be automatic in Firefox to put it there...

By the way, for those who may not know, a "Favicon" is that little icon that appears next to web sites when you add them to your Favorites / Bookmarks... You'll see the Sowpub one is a little "mini" version of the farmer sowing seeds that you'll see at the top of the forum...

Here's how I created the one for Sowpub. I just used one of the online websites you can use to create one for free...

I don't remember now which exact website I used, but here's one you could use...

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

On that page, you can upload a picture (from your computer) that you'd like to use as a "favicon". (It doesn't have to be the right size - that website will resize it for you to the right size.)

Once your icon is created, download it. Now, you just upload the picture, calling it "favicon.ico", to the main directory of your website.

From there, browsers will automatically look for it. If they find it, they'll show it!

(By the way, you don't need to modify your web pages at all. Most browsers I think will look for it automatically. I don't think I modified any of the web pages here... All I did was upload the file.)

Anyway, that's how I did it, as far as I remember... One of my brothers created one for his website, then asked me why I didn't have one! Here's one of my brothers' websites that also has a "Favicon"... MyLinkVault (It's also ranked as the 449th most popular "Web 2.0" website according to Seth Godin's list!)

So if you have a website, that's how you do it!

Cheers,

Dien