IE Favorites graphic, any ideas!

[progger]

Hi
Does anyone know how to make a graphic for I.E favorites menu?
When you add a website to your favorites it also installs a default IE graphic or a scaled down logo of the companies web site (as CF does). I have my own site and want to create a graphic so if you were to add my site to your favorites you would get the graphic instead of the default I.E one.

Anyone know what code to use in order for this to happen?

TIA

Progger

[driver_problems]

Originally Posted by progger

Hi
Does anyone know how to make a graphic for I.E favorites menu?
When you add a website to your favorites it also installs a default IE graphic or a scaled down logo of the companies web site (as CF does). I have my own site and want to create a graphic so if you were to add my site to your favorites you would get the graphic instead of the default I.E one.

Anyone know what code to use in order for this to happen?

TIA

Progger

I banged it into google and there's loads of freeware that lets you do it

http://accessfp.net/faviconico.htm is an example. Don't know if that's any help. You often see that type of software on those free disks you get with magazines etc

[j52c]

Create an icon file called "favicon.ico", it has to be a 16-pixel square icon file use no more than 16 Windows colors. Use a Windows icon program, or use a converter to use an existing graphic by converting it to the 16x16 pixel icon. When you have made your icon file, upload it to each folder of your website so Internet Explorer can find it.
You can download an editor from here:-
http://http://www.snidesoft.com/

If you want the icon to appear in the address line in IE, once you have created your icon and saved it as favicon.ico then save it again as another name, something like page.ico and upload both to your server. Then put this code in the header tags on all your pages:-

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.mydomain.com/page.ico">

It should appear in the address then, incidentally, if you use Firefox, it is automatically displayed in the address bar.