 It's a new interesting feature of the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 called 'Favicon'. Associate an icon with your homepage now. If somebody adds your page to his favorites, IE will access the file favicon.ico in the root folder of your domain and a small icon appears in his favorites list. The same icon is used, if you drag and drop the URL to your desktop. Example: You have a Geocities Page. Then you'll need a Windows Icon File, just name it favicon.ico and place it in your Homepage directory. Then add a line like
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/Area51/Home/6512/favicon.ico">
in the <head> ... </head> section of your Homepage. It's very important to include the whole directory relative to the root of the webserver. If you don't use the LINK REL method, IE will automatically use the file: http://www.yourdomain.com/favicon.ico - Read the MS documentation here. Some people reported me, there are a few bugs in the IE 5, in some cases the icons dissapear from their favourites list (see next question). More infos on Favicons on favicon.com or favicon.de. |
(via http://www.iconarchive.com/html/faq.html )
Did not check this to work yet...but am certain to put it up on my site.