Custom Address Bar Button

[Newb1e]

Hiya, just a quick question thats been bugging me, how do you put a custom graphic in your sites address bar? like the DS one here or in TCH's address bar

 

 

It's probably obvious but I don't know how to, if it's html could you give me the code please?

 

Thanks

[TCH-Thomas]

This thread explains how to do a favicon.

[Newb1e]

Thanks! I would have done a search but I didn't even know it was called Favicon.

 

Thanks again

[LisaJill]

Google actually has this pretty well covered. This search, for instance:

 

how to make a little picture in the address bar?

 

So you don't really need to know what it's called...

 

Note: we love answering these questions, I'm not trying to make you go away Just pointing out that if you'd rather not wait for an answer, you don't necessarily need to know the name of what you want to find out how to do it. =)

Edited November 12, 2004 by TCH-Lisa

[AlanV]

If you actually need to make the icon files, I recommend these two sites (I used them for all the favicons on my site)

 

http://www.favicon.co.uk/ for drawing them freehand with 16 colors

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/ to create them from pix on your computer

 

Good luck!

 

Examples of results:

http://www.alanv.org Freehand drawn

http://cmu.alanv.org Freehand drawn

http://photos.alanv.org Created from pic

http://journal.alanv.org Freehand drawn

http://gilder.alanv.org Created from pic