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Miscellaneous => Programming & Networking => Topic started by: Kintaro on 12 October 2002, 19:20

Title: Those little icons
Post by: Kintaro on 12 October 2002, 19:20

How do you put those little icons on your website?
Ya know like on Bravenet, www.thepublicinternet.org, (http://www.thepublicinternet.org,) and other sites?

Title: Those little icons
Post by: pkd_lives on 12 October 2002, 20:56

Isn't it actually .com not org.

And I thought you just copied the code into your web page code.

Title: Those little icons
Post by: flap on 12 October 2002, 20:58

what little icons?

Title: Those little icons
Post by: flap on 12 October 2002, 21:04

oh you mean in the address bar.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

Title: Those little icons
Post by: Kintaro on 15 October 2002, 12:09

Thats exacly what i mean, now what format are they!

Title: Those little icons
Post by: voidmain on 15 October 2002, 12:35

http://www.favicon.com/ (http://www.favicon.com/)

Title: Those little icons
Post by: Kintaro on 15 October 2002, 16:22

So what format are they?

Title: Those little icons
Post by: KernelPanic on 15 October 2002, 22:10

The format is actuall several images bundled together, therefore you need a tool to make them.

Not surprisingly there is a free linux tool for making these:

PNG2ico (http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/index.html)

Title: Those little icons
Post by: voidmain on 16 October 2002, 01:06

quote:

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Originally posted by Ex Eleven / b0b:
So what format are they?

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Did you go to the link I gave you? It's in the FAQ. The format of a favicon.ico is basically the Microsoft ICO (ICON) format, which contains a 16x16  and a 32x32 image within the ICON.

Here's a tutorial using the "png2ico" utility which might give you a better idea of the format. If you want an even deeper idea of the format, look at the source to "png2ico".

http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/ (http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/)

Like Tux mentioned in the previous message.

[ October 15, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Title: Those little icons
Post by: Kintaro on 16 October 2002, 03:53

Thanks, soon my site will be cooking on the Linux Server, with favicons.

Title: Those little icons
Post by: Gooseberry Clock on 16 October 2002, 21:39

You mean IE isn't the only browser that supports them?

Title: Those little icons
Post by: Calum on 16 October 2002, 22:28

try one of those other browsers you're always linking to and find out.

Title: Those little icons
Post by: Kintaro on 17 October 2002, 16:38

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Title: Those little icons
Post by: Refalm on 17 October 2002, 19:23

I used a gif image for my shortcut icon... I'm evil now  (http://tongue.gif)