How to create a customised Favorites Icon
Teacher: Akinori Furukoshi

If you have ever visited sites such as Yahoo and added them as a favourite, you would have noticed that the icon is very different to other favourites in your menu.

Here's how it's done. This works on IE5, I'm not sure about other browsers. Test it out by going to www.tamingthebeast.net and adding it to your Favourites

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Create a new image 16x16 pixels in your favourite graphics program.

Drop the number of colours to 16 to minimise file size

Create your graphic (okay, I know-16x16 pixels doesn't give you much room to be creative!)

Save it as a gif.

Use an icon editor or similarly capable graphics program to open it. Icon editors are available in my download area - or you can email me and I'll send you a freeware copy.

Save it as favicon.ico in the root directory of the web.

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This will help make your Favourite listing stand out from the rest........

The file size is very small, so it won't bug your users. The Taming the Beast icon is around 318 bytes.

About the teacher:
Written by Michael Bloch of Taming the Beast.net. Tutorials, web content, tools and software. Web Marketing, eCommerce & Internet solutions.