How to Create an Internet Explorer Favorites Icon for Your Web Page

When a viewer using Internet Explorer 5.x adds a Web site to the Favorites folder, an Explorer icon appears. In FrontPage 2000, you can customize the Favorites icon for your page.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Modems
• Internet Access
• Adobe Photoshop
• Microsoft FrontPage
• Paint Shop Pro
• Web Browsers
• Paint Shop Pro

1. Use an icon-editing or general image-editing program to create an icon measuring 16-by-16 pixels.

2. Save the icon as "favicon.ico."

3. Copy the file and place it in the root web. (See "How to Import a File into FrontPage."

4. Upload the page and test the feature by right-clicking on your page and selecting Add to Favorites.

Tips & Warnings

• Make the icon a smaller version of your logo or an image that readily identifies you to the user.
• If you make an existing image into an icon, make sure it is viewable as an icon.
• This feature only works with Internet Explorer 5.0 and above.

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on 11/22/2005 In Paint* you can save the images into an icon with extension favicon.ico - 1) Start Settings Folder Options 2) View and don't hide file extensions for known file types 3) Change the favicon.bmp for favicon.ico and save your image.