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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?

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

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

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.

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.

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-->

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.

<!--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.

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

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....

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

<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.

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.