Creating custom bookmark icon on Windows

I think the address for info on this is http://www.favicon.com/

I've been looking into this slightly, but I haven't done any real work on it yet - the idea of trying to create an icon puts me off!

You should both do it. It's worth the effort. It really helps you stand out in somebody's favorites list (if you can get them to bookmark them in the first place). After you check out http://www.favicon.com for background and instruction, there's a great free icon maker called Goldicon you can download at http://www.goldshell.com./goldicon/main.htm. (I've tried others and this one is good)

This is great if your isp host server actually supports it!! Mine is currently looking into how to support it but as I'm the only person who has suggested it, it isn't top of their list of things to do today!!!

Your host does not need to support it. As long as you can upload that favicon.ico file to your directory, you can use it. If you can't get the file into the root directory, there is a snippet of code that you can put on all of your pages that will tell the browser an alternate location to find the file. I can't remember the code, but you can find it in the Stupid Webtricks section of Builder.com

I have uploaded the icon to the root folder of my site but it doesn't work!

Have you tried adding that code that redirects the browser to download the favicon.ico file from an alternate location? This may be especially important if your html files aren't in the root directory. If this doesn't help, I don't know what else to try. Sorry Good luck.

One other possiblity could be if it was uploaded in ASCII rather than Binary.

What redirect code would that be then??
All the files are in the root directory for the domain.

Put this code in the HEAD section:

now you can put the icon file anywhere you want, and even give it a name other than favicon.ico.

One last thing, make sure it is an ico (icon) file and not a bmp (bitmap). People sometimes think they are the same and just rename the extention of a bmp file, but that won't work.

Thanks

Glad you got yours working doren, mine still wont! It has to be something with my server who is hosting the site. But they don't know what they have to do at their end to make it work!

Oh well, my sites will just have to look boring in favourites then!

If you don't use the redirect as shown above besure tocopy the icon file to all your page sub directories too.

If your host gives you 404 stats you should see the number of missing calls to FAVICON disappear.

I have put the redirect on & still it doesn't work