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

Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
> 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.
It's not a Windows thing. It requires a browser that supports it,
however. IE and Mozilla both support it.

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