Putting up Ubuntu favicon.ico
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After being annoyed looking at all those 404 messages when IE tries to access this website /favicon.ico, i finally decided to put one up.
For those who don’t know, favicon.ico is that small (typically 16×16) icon that appeared beside the address bar. Since my blog is mostly centered around Ubuntu, I’ve chosen to put up an Ubuntu logo.
How to put up favicon.ico
Find a nice icon in png or ico format , make sure it look nice at 16×16, upload it on your website.
Put this line on your header (between <head> tags)
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
If you’re using a png image, replace type with “image/png”. I haven’t personally test this with Internet Explorer much, but I doubt Internet Explorer doesnt support other icon format than .ico.
If that’s the case, you might benefit from png2ico
You can download the ubuntu favicon.ico here.
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November 29th, 2006 at 6:01 am
t know, favicon.ico is that small (typically 16×16) icon that appeared beside the address bar. Since my blog is mostly centered around Ubuntu, I’ve chosen to put up an Ubuntu logo. How to put up favico… 0 pong [IMG Direct link]
February 16th, 2007 at 11:47 am
You can get nice antialiased favicons with Firefox (and others?) as follows:
1) Make yourself a nice 16×16 PNG image with antialiasing and a transparent background.
2) Use png2ico to make a favicon.ico for older browsers.
3) Add the following to the HEAD of your HTML document:
4) Clear your cache, and Viola! :-)
February 16th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Not quite… But you get the idea! :-P
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:48 am
Nice one thx !