CHANGE THE ADDRESS BAR ICON
ABOUT
A few years back not many website's had their own address bar icon but theses days it's different and nearly all sites have their own personal icon. You can make your website look professional by learning how to create an address bar icon of your own and change the default browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox) icon to yours. This can be a great way for people to remember your website and increase traffic to your site. Viewing the address bar icons can vary depending on the browser you are using, generally in Firefox you can view the new icon without bookmarking the page but with Internet Explorer below version 7, you may need to add the page to the favorites to be able to view the new image. To see FGD's address bar icon and find out how to add your own icon follow these instructions:
EXAMPLES
TUTORIAL
STEP 1:
Firstly if your using Internet Explorer below version 7 you might need to add this page to your Favorites to see the icon below in the address bar, if so follow the instructions, if the image below is already showing in the address bar go to STEP 3.
On the Menu Bar select the Favorites then the Add to Favorites options.
If your using Mozilla-Firefox then the icon will appear automatically. Generally you will view your web pages through a version of Internet Explorer as this is the default browser that comes with most computers being a Microsoft product but more and more surfers are using other more secure browsers, Firefox is the award-winning web browser which is now even faster, more secure, and fully customizable to suit your online life, it has powerful features that make your online experience even better. To get the Mozilla-Firefox browser for FREE select the image below:
Now select the OK button.
Scroll down the Favorites list until you get to Free Gear Design - Home Page (FGD) the new icon is now displayed this image has replaced the Internet Explorer icon.
If you have any problems viewing the icon refresh the page by selecting the Refresh option on the Navigation Toolbar or press the F5 button on the keyboard and add the page to your Favorites again. In Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox when you open a new Tab the icon will also show, making it easier for visitors to find the site if they have several Tabs open at once.
There are several different ways to create your own icon, you can use a graphics editor to create an image (must be 16x16 pixies in size) to get a FREE graphics editor click here, you can get a selection of FREE icon's at Freeiconsweb (you need to save the file with the ico extension, example car.ico), alternatively if you already have an image (JPEG, GIF, BMP etc.) you can change the file extension by using the Favicon system, you simply upload your image and convert it to the ICO format.
Browser icons are 16x16 pixel's in size so when considering an icon take these small dimensions into account. You can get an additional animated ICO image with the Favicon system this will work in the Firefox browser but may not in Internet Explorer.
STEP 4:
Once you have your icon copy the following code:
STEP 5:
Now paste the code into the top of the <HEAD> tag in your web page.
You will need to change the web address (www.yourwebsite.com) to your address and the icon (logo.ico) to your icon name if different. You only need to upload one icon to the root directory (www.yourwebsite.com) and then just add the code into different pages on your site.