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In Internet Explorer and other browsers, when the URL you are visiting is in your Favourites List, an icon appears next to the URL in the Address bar and next to the website name in the Favourites menu. To see an example, add this page to your Favourites, then refresh. Look at the address bar of the browser, the metawerx logo is displayed. |
In Internet Explorer, when the URL you are visiting is in your Favourites List, an icon appears next to the URL in the Address bar and next to the website name in the Favourites menu. To see an example, add this page to your Favourites, then refresh. Look at the address bar of the browser, the metawerx logo is displayed. In FireFox the icon is always displayed. |
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Note that you may need special graphics software to create or edit an icon file, as most graphics software does not support this format. One such piece of software is [IrfanView|http://www.irfanview.com/]. |
Note that you may need special graphics software to create or edit an icon file, as most graphics software does not support this format. One such piece of software is [IrfanView|http://www.irfanview.com/]. However - see below for how to use a PNG file instead. |
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For best results, on your web pages, include the following line in your HTML as well. Using a link in this way also allows different icons for different pages of your site. If this link is present, modern browsers will use the icon specified, instead of just searching for the default "/favicon.ico". If you check the View Source for this wiki page, you will see a similar link tag being used to display the Metawerx icon. |
On modern browsers, a newer method for adding a favourites icon has been added. This method now takes preference over the default favicon.ico file. Therefore, for best results on your web pages, include the following line in your HTML as well. For compatibility with older browsers however, we recommend using the favicon.ico method. |
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* Using a link in this way also allows different icons for different pages of your site |
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* href can point to any valid image location, as long as the image is the correct type (ico if you specified image/ico, png if you specified image/png etc..) and size (20x20) |
* href can point to any valid image location, as long as the image is the correct type (ico if you specified image/ico, png if you specified image/png etc..) and size (16x16 or 32x32) |
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