FavIcon installed

I finally got round to adding the favicon back into the site. I used to have one a long time ago but it was pants. You should be able to see the fav icon in the address bar above - a little picture of me! If you bookmark the site the favicon will reside beside the bookmark.

Favicons are 'favorites icons' - icons used in your favorites section of your browser. Initally designed to work with IE most other browsers are now able to see them.

To build my favicon I used the Iconforge software available from the favicon.com site. Its painless to install and fairly easy to use. I set up my image in Photoshop and resized it to 32px x 32px and saved it as a gif and then imported it into Iconforge and simply exported it out as a favicon .ico file.

To get it to show on the site I uploaded it into my assets directory and then added the following link into the head tag of my pages:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.simoncox.com/assets/fav.ico">

I actually use the Moveable Type system so I simply updated my templates and rebuilt the whole site.

Voila!

Posted by Simon at July 24, 2003 6:56 AM

Social Bookmarks:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.