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Post June 22nd, 2009, 12:50 pm

I just simply opened up a picture and made it 16x16 and saved it as favicon.ico in the root of my website, But its not working in either Firefox or IE.. Am i missing something?

I searched around and i read that only just adding favicon.ico in the root folder will do the trick..

Oh and i just renamed it to favicon.ico from favicon.jpg .. As Ms Paint doesnt have an option to save in ICO format
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Post June 22nd, 2009, 12:50 pm

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Post June 22nd, 2009, 1:20 pm

You can't do that. That won't format it properly. You need an icon creator. See the sticky post at the top
website-design-forum/design-tip-favicons-that-small-icon-the-address-bar-t20434.html

There are several recommended in there and additional tips on how to create them.
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Post June 22nd, 2009, 5:15 pm

I made a blog entry on how to create a favicon, you can check that if you like cosmocentral.com/2008/03/transparent-favicon-how-to-make/
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Post June 22nd, 2009, 5:30 pm

Make it with Photoshop. How-to in this thread. Or you could make an animated, as explained in this thread.
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Post June 23rd, 2009, 12:51 am

Just so you know MS invented favicons so, of course, IE will not support them, makes perfect sense to me.
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