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Old 21-04-2005, 00:04   #1
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Little icons

Does anyone know how or where to get the little icons before the URL from? I think it looks kinda cool and basically...i want one.
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Old 21-04-2005, 00:06   #2
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Re: Little icons

what do you want one for?
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Old 21-04-2005, 00:10   #3
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Re: Little icons

I want to stick a little burger in front of my url
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Old 21-04-2005, 00:16   #4
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Re: Little icons

you need to get some icon creation software and create yourself and icon that is 16x16 pixels (pretty small), some software allows you to import images and will resize it as best it can. Save the icon as favicon.ico and upload to your website root or the directory where your page is. Otherwise you can tell a browser where to find it by adding the following code to the HEAD part of your page:
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 <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
Modify the href= bit to point to wherever you file is. Then load your page in a browser to test!
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Re: Little icons

they're called favicons (fav-eye-cons) and they are quite good to make websites stand out especially in your bookmarks/favourites folders

you need to have a program that can make icons which are 16x16 pixels and to link them to your site, you first need to upload your icon to your webspace and add this line of code to your HTML in the head tag:

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://yourpage.com/favicon.ico">

yourpage.com is the name of your page, and favicon.ico is the name
of the file, it is a good idea to call it favicon, as the browser will recognise
it as a favicon

I found a good free online icon maker here:
http://www.favicon.co.uk/

all you ever wnated to know about favicons here:
http://www.favicon.com/

hope this helps

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EDIT: free icon software: http://www.iconutils.com/iconomaker/
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Re: Little icons

too slow!
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Re: Little icons

Thanks peeps. This should give me something to peruse tomorrow.
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Re: Little icons

I'll just add that you can make icons is sizes other than 16x16 (say 32x32) and Mozilla & Firefox browsers will automatically resize them.
IE based browsers probably won't show them at all.
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Re: Little icons

Hey guys, check it out lol. Works a treat. I have Gimp2 which i found out can save images as icons, so that helped with 3200% zoom. I now have a cool little hamburger.
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Re: Little icons

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Hey guys, check it out lol. Works a treat. I have Gimp2 which i found out can save images as icons, so that helped with 3200% zoom. I now have a cool little hamburger.
Bin it and get a hot one.
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Bin it and get a hot one.
Good idea, just done a fab new smoking hot burger
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