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Re: Creating Favicons
I also use Irfanview like dave does. Really simple cuts down all the steps as any .jpg .gif .pnp .bmp can be saved with the .ico extension.


It is best to work with at least a 32X32 as 16x16 is really too small to work with, at least for me.
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Re: Creating Favicons
There is a nice online favicon builder I've just stumbled upon. It also offers a 48x48 px version for your WinXP icons :-)

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Re: Creating Favicons
Hey but I am still stuck.

I added following line code in my <head> biggrin

But It gives me icon which is given to the files which are not recognized by windows.

Please Help!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Creating Favicons
You are using an icon that you already have right? And, IE won't display it when you bookmark it, even though you added the code as Tim suggested.

Try recreating your icon with the methods listed above. Then give it a shot and let us know what happens. IE displays fine when bookmarked for me.
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Re: Creating Favicons
Broc,

Thanks for the response.

I tried thai to.
1. I don't have have the software to create a png file.
2. I tried to convert bmp2ico, but after running the bat file no file was created, when run it in DOS(just to ckeck what is happning)
It was showing an error that bmp2ico external command is not recognized

One thing I want to share with you is that, I just created one html
file with only html and head tag, and put the link code
inside the head. then opened the file and added to the favorites.
but it is not working.

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Re: Creating Favicons
Try out the online favicon builder Dave recomended.

Also, are you uploading the .html and .ico file to a server, or saving it on your hard drive? Make sure the link acurately describes the file including it's location.

Not that I think it would make much of a difference, but the markup Tim gave is xhtml. The html equivalent is very similar

xhtml: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"/>

html: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
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devilish Re: Creating Favicons
I tried this code but still not working:
html: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

I am not uploading file and image.

and I also don't have IIS to run it from local server.

What should I do.

Can you try the following code in your PC.
don't upload it. juat run it from PC.

<head>
<title>Meet</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<meta name="author" content="Meet">
<meta name="copyright" content="Meet">
<meta name="description" content="Meet">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
</head>
<body>
<img src="favicon.ico" width=100 height=100>
</form>
</body>

I removed HTML tag from the code because it was giving me error of Perant tag sad
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Re: Creating Favicons
It is likely not running because it is not on a server. install a test server and test it then.
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confused Re: Creating Favicons
Sure,

I will try this at my home tonight sad
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Re: Creating Favicons
Try XAMPP , free Apache server that also configures it and installs MySQL and PHP. It is Free.
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