Steven Krivit wrote:
Can any html-heads out there tell me how to add a mini icon to the
front of the nav field on a browser?
I used Dreamweaver.
If you mean what I think you mean, you just need to create a file named
"favicon.ico" and put it in the top level directory of your website
(same directory index.html goes in).
It's in Windows icon bitmap format (whatever that is) and it's 16x16
IIRC, which isn't much room for drawing a pretty picture, but what can
you do, it's just an ad-hoc standard so there's not even a committee to
complain to. It will automatically show up in the nav bar in most
browsers and in the bookmarks lists of at least some of them if someone
chooses to bookmark your site.
You typically use a graphics (drawing) program to create the icon. I
used Gimp, but I'm working on Linux here. I'm not sure what you'd use
on Windows -- Photoimpact could almost surely do it; I'm not sure what
other programs are good for it. I think you just need a program which
will "save-as" an image as type "icon". If you google "favicon.ico" and
a few terms like "creating" and "icon" you can probably find more
information on making them.
If you do google the subject you'll most likely find a some information
about what you need to change in your index page in order to make the
icon actually show up. As far as I know, that's obsolete at this point:
the current crop of browsers pick up the file on their own with no
additional encouragement.
TIA,
Steve
