Re: icon on website

hi!

does anyone here knows how some sites are able to chow their icons whenever
their site is accessed? what i mean is for example when i type the
"www.yahoo.com" in the internet explorer/konqueror, the icon of yahoo appears.


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Re: icon on website

its a favicon, specified in the html headers.

www.favicon.com



On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, ryanne cruz wrote:

> hi!
>
> does anyone here knows how some sites are able to chow their icons whenever
> their site is accessed? what i mean is for example when i type the
> "www.yahoo.com" in the internet explorer/konqueror, the icon of yahoo appears.
>
>
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Re: icon on website

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, ryanne cruz wrote:

> hi!
>
> does anyone here knows how some sites are able to chow their icons whenever
> their site is accessed? what i mean is for example when i type the
> "www.yahoo.com" in the internet explorer/konqueror, the icon of yahoo appears.

It's a 16x16 icon called favicon.ico in the docroot directory of the
server.

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Re: icon on website

Search the net for 'favicon.ico'

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "ryanne cruz"
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Subject: Re: [PHP] icon on website


> hi!
>
> does anyone here knows how some sites are able to chow their icons
whenever
> their site is accessed? what i mean is for example when i type the
> "www.yahoo.com" in the internet explorer/konqueror, the icon of yahoo
appears.
>
>
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