HTML and Code design insider tricks

The secret of adding an automated download Icon image to Favorite or a Bookmark entry.

 

This design trick is with a file called FAVICON.ICO

Your icon in a list of favorites on someones PC will add more that a little professionalism.  Take a look at your Favorites List and see which of them stand out - yep the ones with a graphical image attached to them.  You can do this as well, however the drawback is that most graphical packages do not support this style even though it is in standard ICON format.

Once you have chosen or created your file you most follow these steps:

1.  Rename the file to favicon.ico
2.  Save this file in your sites root directory
3.  If you do not own your domain "See-Tip:  HTML CODE - favicon.ico linking" below

 

When this is completed, every user's ADD TO FAVORITES request will automatically download this image file and attach it to the link.

For an example
Click Here To Add To Favorites

 

To see the potential customers you are missing simply look at your Website statistics error log for favicon.ico - this tells you how many times someone has bookmarked your site.

 

See-Tip:  HTML CODE - favicon.ico linking

Place the following code between the <HEAD> ... </HEAD>  tags

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.xxxx">

 

Where http://www.xxx = the full address of the .ico file

eg:  file myfavicon.ico in directory /icon
http://mydomain.com/icon/myfavicon.ico

 

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