Introduction
It's always nice to differentiate your site from others, and there a couple of places
in particular that allow you to make your site stand out from the crowd.
Dragging a URL from the address bar of Internet Explorer onto your desktop creates
a shortcut with the familiar blue and white IE shortcut icon:
Adding a site to your favorites brings a similar result.
If your readers are viewing your site through Internet Explorer 5.0 or above then
you can make your site stand out for them by simply creating a 16 x 16 pixel bitmap
called favicon.ico
(using the Visual Studio icon editor, for example) and placing this icon in your web site's
root directory.
As soon as the user adds the site to their favorites then IE will scan that website for
the favicon.ico and use it instead of the standard IE icon for desktop shortcuts,
the address bar, the 'Favorites' drop down menu in IE, the shortcut bar in the taskbar (Win 98+
and Windows 2000), and in the Office Shortcut bar.
You can associate a different icon with a specific page by adding a LINK
statement to the HEAD
of your page:
<HEAD>
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.mydomain.com/myicon.ico">
<TITLE>My Title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
Click here to see the icon for Code Project.
Chris Maunder is the co-founder of
CodeProject, DeveloperMedia and ContentLab, and has been a prominent figure in the software development community for nearly 30 years. Hailing from Australia, Chris has a background in Mathematics, Astrophysics, Environmental Engineering and Defence Research. His programming endeavours span everything from FORTRAN on Super Computers, C++/MFC on Windows, through to to high-load .NET web applications and Python AI applications on everything from macOS to a Raspberry Pi. Chris is a full-stack developer who is as comfortable with SQL as he is with CSS.
In the late 1990s, he and his business partner David Cunningham recognized the need for a platform that would facilitate knowledge-sharing among developers, leading to the establishment of CodeProject.com in 1999. Chris's expertise in programming and his passion for fostering a collaborative environment have played a pivotal role in the success of CodeProject.com. Over the years, the website has grown into a vibrant community where programmers worldwide can connect, exchange ideas, and find solutions to coding challenges. Chris is a prolific contributor to the developer community through his articles and tutorials, and his latest passion project,
CodeProject.AI.
In addition to his work with CodeProject.com, Chris co-founded ContentLab and DeveloperMedia, two projects focussed on helping companies make their Software Projects a success. While at CodeProject, Chris' roles included Architecture and coding, Product Development, Content Creation, Community Growth, Client Satisfaction and Systems Automation, and many, many sales meetings. All while keeping his sense of humour.