Wonder how some websites are able to place shortcut images inside the
address bar, the Favorite menu or as an icon on your desktop? Well,
Internet Explorer 5 allows for the placement of an image in the address
bar. This is an excellent way to distinguish your website from
others. The image that you'll ultimately be displaying as a shortcut
on a PC will have the arrow in the lower left hand corner and will be
displayed much smaller in the address bar than in the image editor you
choose.
The image must be in .ico (Windows Icon) format. Not every image
tool allows files to be saved in .ico format. There are several
applications that will convert files to .ico format.
Understanding these limitations and once
you create your image in .ico format, you're ready to display it online.
Simply add the following within the head tags on your document
<head>
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.your-url.com/name
of file.ico">
</head>
The working script at psacake.com looks like this
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.psacake.com/favicon.ico">
Images typically do not show up in the address bar until a page from that url has been saved locally on your PC and sometimes do not appear until after re-start, so be wary when creating your .ico
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