Giving the site a new Identity by giving a new Icon

Hi

After quite a few days I have added anew feature to the Site. A favicon for the Website. The Icon gives an Identity to the site. A favicon is that little icon beside a URL in the address bar of your browser.

You can already see the in the Title and address bar. It was fairly simple. Create an .ICO file. The ico file will be the icon. Add a small code to the header of the site. As I am using the Master page this was fairly easy. All I had to do was add a tag in the HEAD section of the master page.

<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="iconName.ico">

The size of the icon should be 16 * 16 and should be saved (you should be keeping the icon file) in the root of the application.

He Icon also works with IE7 ad Firefox. Hence no problem with different browser also

Hope you like the Icon
Thanks
Vikram 

P.S. Not to forget to thank Farghana for her help in creating the icon for the site.


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Posted on 10/15/2007 10:01:14 PM

this is gud u give us knowledge abt this bt in my application its is not displaying...but if i add it in favorities...then it is displaying otherwise not can u tell me plz whats the error?....

thanx

Posted on 2/8/2008 2:53:55 AM

Theres no need to place any code in the head tag of your master page. Just call the file favicon.ico and place it in the root folder of your website. Then the icon will appear on every page of the site, and even images etc...

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