How to get my own little Addressbar Icon

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nico2000

Hi everybody,

As you see the URL of most pages accompanied by a
little "Internet Explorer icon" in the addressbar of your
browser. But some pages have their own custom icon
instead.
I want that to, but I don't know how to...

Does anybody know how to get this...?

Ofcourse MS itself can't shed any light on ths subject...
Too busy counting money.

Thanx
Nico2000
 
Script: Adding An Icon With Your URL - Two Method

Functions: Whenever anyone bookmarks your site, an ico
will subsequently show up on their Favorite
list. When your site is visited, the ico
will also show in the URL box of the browser

Browsers: IE5 and Later (ignored by other browsers

Author: etLux - after Microsof
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Method On
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Select any standard Windows icon file. The .ico file *must
be in standard Windows icon file format, or it will b
ignored

Rename the icon file *exactly* to: favicon.ico -- al
lowercase. No deviation from this is allowed

Place the favicon.ico file in the 'root' directory on you
web server (where your main index page is).

Whenever your site is bookmarked, the icon will subsequentl
show up on the visitor's Favorites list. When they visi
your site, the icon will also show in the URL window of th
browser

That's all there is to it -- it's automatically picked up b
IE5 and later browsers.

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Method Tw
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Insert the following LINK tag in the <head>...</head> o
your pages

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.mydomain.com/myicon.ico"

Change the path and icon filename to correspond to th
location of the icon file on your site. The icon graphi
filename should be lowercase, no more than eight characters
and the extension must be .ico

As above, the file *must* be in standard Windows icon fil
format or it will be ignored

When you use this method as opposed to Method One above, th
LINK REL code should appear on any page that might b
bookmarked

Don't forget to confirm that the icon file is actually wher
you say it is in the LINK REL path

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More Information - Creating Icon
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The following is an exact quote from Microsoft®

"For Internet Explorer 5, the required size of a shortcu
icon is 16x16 pixels. To create the icon, use an ico
editor, such as the one included in Microsoft® Visua
Studio® or one of the many other icon editors available
Regardless of the program you use, make sure you set th
editor to create an icon that is 16x16 pixels. Otherwise
the icon will be ignored by Internet Explorer.

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Troubleshootin
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We've noticed occasionally quirky behavior with this IE
feature on several systems

In many cases the icon will not appear on your machine unti
*after* you perform the following steps

- close *all* programs but the browse
- navigate to a neutral site, off your own ur
- remove any and all bookmarks (favorites) to you
site that you may currently hav
- clear the History and the Cache of the browse
- reboot, clear the Recycle Bi
- reboot again, bookmark your sit
- reboot [sigh] again..
boban
 
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