Re: I'm Back, and I Need Web Help!

On Thursday 21 August 2003 14:06, David Peterson wrote:
> 1.) You know when you go to Yahoo!, or even langmaker.com, how (if you
have the type of brower that displays this) there's a little picture up
next to the url?  For Yahoo! it's there Yahoo! Y, and for langmaker.com
it's the picture of that healer guy that's on Jeffrey Henning's
website.  How do you do that?  I want a little picture on my website!

Since no one else answered this, I will:
These are called "shortcut icons" or "address bar icons" and are
apparently a Windows thing. You can add this line to the heading of
your html document:
  <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="your-image-here">
and it should work, provided you are using a webserver to display the
page. If it's just a local file, it won't work. I've tested it on
Brinkster, which uses one of the Microsoft servers and it works. I
haven't (yet) tested it against apache.
Which machine you are on to view the page doesn't particularly matter. I
use linux at home and mozilla, and I could see the address bar icon
fine.
According to some documentation, the icon image has to be in .ico
format. On my testpage, it's in .png format. (This might be why I can
see it on linux) The testpage is here:
http://www.qistech.com/misc/testpage.html
Hmm, checking from my laptop (Windows 2000), only Opera displays the
.png image. Let's try again with a .ico image...
http://www.qistech.com/misc/testpage2.html
and it works on IE, Mozilla and Opera on the laptop and in Mozilla on
the linuxbox. Success!

-Sylvia

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