Website design question

Keithscatch · February 19, 2009, 03:33:09 PM

I am curious how websites like this one can place icons in the tab or next to their url on a favorites list. Can someone tell me how I can do that to my site? If you have more than 1 window open in your browser do you see that some of them have a logo or icon in it while others like mine just have a piece of paper with the top right corner folded down.

UB has a green bass on theirs.

Thanks ya'll.

tsmith35 · February 19, 2009, 05:31:22 PM

Just Google for favicon. It's pretty easy to do. Some sites even have animated favicons, but they're only animated in Firefox.

BassFishingCommunity · February 19, 2009, 05:49:55 PM

also be sure to put you favicon file in your root directory. If its deep inside other files in your site it can sometimes take a long time for the browser to find it, if at all.

Keithscatch · February 19, 2009, 08:40:00 PM

Sweet thanks guys.

Keithscatch · February 19, 2009, 10:17:02 PM

Ok I am not having luck adding the 16x16 icon I created to my site. I am using Yahoo site builder so maybe if I knew where to add it I could do it. Any ideas? I read where it says to add this to the HEADER section. That seems kinda vague to me. Any ideas?

tsmith35 · February 19, 2009, 10:32:55 PM

Found this on Yahoo Answers:

Code Select

Just upload the favicon.ico to your root directory, and add this inside the <head></head> tags:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" />

Keithscatch · February 20, 2009, 07:17:29 AM

tsmith35 at the risk of sounding dumb

I already had the code from another site but my problem was finding where to put the code. I see lots of references to <head> but not sure which one to post this in front of.

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