Favicons
Saturday, January 31, 2009
You'll need some sort of HTML editing tool (like the awesome Notepad) and FTP.First off, what is a "Favourite Icon" (favicon)? It is essentially this little image next to URL addresses in your browser that can also be saved when you "favourite" pages, etc. For instance:
Notice how each link (which is saved in my quick link thingie in Firefox) has that image beside it? Or, near the address bar:
You can create one for your own site VERY easily too!
To start off, you will need a 16 px by 16 px little image saved in gif or jpg format you want to use as your favicon. Tip: Don't try anything fancy. It's so small you won't be able to SEE much anyways. You can either create this in a graphics software (like PS, PSP, etc.) or via this site: Favicon.cc
If you use the favicon.cc site, you will be able to download the file directly (ignore the next sentence and scroll down a bit for the image)
Once you have made your awesome image...visit this link. Upload your image and remember to select the option "keep dimensions".
Now you can download~
To actually implement you favicon, you will need to upload it into your main directory via your FTP tool. Once its there, open up the pages you want to implement this favicon to in Notepad or w/e you use and insert the below code between your "header" tags.
Credits: kay from whom I learned this. Of course, you could just go read her tutorial...but the reason I posted it up here is because I've personally always wondered how to do this and if some people visit Cursed and not Paper-Rain...they'll never get to learn, eh?