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Making your website url stand out

Have you ever wondered how to get that little icon to appear next to your website’s address? Well look no further, as I have a very simple solution for you. First you must find an image that you would like to show up as your website’s icon. This image can be in gif, jpg, png, or bmp format with a maximum file size of 150 kB. Ok, now that you have your image the hard part is how do I convert it to the ico format that is required? Most graphics programs do not support this format to export to. So to save yourself the trouble of installing a specific software application for this one purpose, I have found an online service that serves the exact same purpose. You can now visit this website to convert your image into the ico format. It will take all of about five seconds. After you are done there make sure to save your newly created image with the name of favicon.ico . The next step is to upload this image into the root directory of your website. It all depends on how your server is setup, but the correct folder probably looks something like this: /public_html in a single domain environment or /public_html/yourdomain in a multiple domain environment. It is most likely yourdomain, not yourdomain.com . For the final step you must update your main index page. This is normally called index.php or index.html. Look at the very top of the source code on this page, and you should see an html tag named <head>. Put this line of code right after the <head>

<link href=”/favicon.ico” rel=”shortcut icon” />

Ok, you’re all done, your web browser will automatically update your icon to appear next to the website url window, the tab window, and the bookmarks menu. It can take up to one day for the icon to show up, so don’t be worried something is wrong if it doesn’t work right off the bat. Enjoy your newly customized url :)

This entry was posted by Erik on Sunday, October 14th, 2007 at 12:30 pm and is filed under Webmaster. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Making your website url stand out”

  1. Great Information and easy to follow but……

    I ran into a small problem Keeps opening with ACDSee for Windows and unable to save in ico. Format

    Any suggestions appreciated

    Otherwise I really love the concept

    Wendy

  2. Hmm, sounds like your web browser won’t let you save it, its trying to view it instead, that’s why ACDSee is opening. Maybe try using a different web browser to save it? Or go into your Windows File Types setup and unassociate .ico with ACDSee. Hope this helps!

  3. does the pixel size count? like 64×64 or 32×32? any real format to go by or does it shrink itself down? thanks in advance!

  4. The dynamic drive website will shrink it down to what it needs to be automatically. I believe the pixel size it shrinks it to is 16×16.

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