?How can I have a favicon show up in my feed.

Guest

Anybody knows how to have a favicon show up in a feed?

When I open Feeddemon I see nice icons for almost every feed.
How can this be done?

Hope someone knows...

Thanks in advance!

Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 270

Can you give an example of a feed that does show one of those 'favicons'? I don't see any icons other than the FeedDemon default one on all the feeds in mine.

Thanks

Guest

Here's the url:

http://www.rtl.nl/service/rss/rtlz/index.xml

Hope this helps..

Kind regards,

Remco

Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 270

Do you mean the icons that show up over in the browser window with the feed items? If so, this is the feed's image, not its favicon. In FeedForAll, go to the Images tab and set up an image for your feed there.

Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Philadelphia, PA

He means this, a 16 X 16 pixel image that shows up.

http://dlevere.htmlplanet.com/favicon.ico

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 5:29 pm

How to Create a Favicon for Your Web Site

By Kalena Jordan

Ever see those little custom icons next to a web site listing in your
favorites folder or on your browser address bar? Have you ever wondered
how to create one for your own site? Well I'm going to teach you in this
article.

The icons are called "favicons", a contraction of the phrase "favorite
icons". To see an example, go to www.searchenginecollege.com and
bookmark the site (or add to your "favorites" list). Now close your
browser window and open a new one. Click on your bookmarked sites or
favorites list and find the site you just bookmarked. See the tiny
mortarboard graphic next to the listing? That's a favicon. It makes the
site stand out from all the others in your favorites list. If you click
on that site, the favicon will even load next to the URL in your browser
address bar from now on.

Cool huh? Like to create a favicon for your own site? It's easier than
you think. Here's what you do:

1) Choose an image or symbol that you would like to use to represent
your web site. This could be a tiny version of your logo, a graphic or
perhaps a stylized version of your company initials. A famous example of
this is the "Y!" favicon used by Yahoo! A favicon is meant to reflect
the look and feel of a web site or a company logo. Remember it needs to
be simple and clear enough to have visual impact when converted to 16 x
16 pixels.

2) Take a high quality version of your chosen image in .JPG or .GIF
format and if it isn't already, convert your image to the 256 color Web
Safe Palette or the Windows 16 color format (the fewer colors the
better).

3) Using your favorite graphics package or image manipulation software,
reduce the image down to 16 pixels wide by 16 pixels high, being
careful to preserve the image resolution. This is the tricky bit,
because you might find your chosen image looks fantastic at the
original size and downright silly at 16 x 16 pixels! Keep experimenting
until you are happy with the finished icon. If you can't seem to make
it work or you're short on time, you can use a free icon converter like
Image Icon Converter
http://www.popularshareware.com/Image-Icon-Converter-download-11313.html
to convert your graphic to an icon or use an icon editor such as
ImageAuthor http://imageauthor.com/ to build your icon from scratch.

4) You're nearly done! Now, take your completed icon and save it as
"favicon.ico". This is the default icon name that web browsers like
Internet Explorer and Netscape look for. If you want to be really
clever, you can even create a customized icon for each page on your
site - instructions for this can be found at www.favicon.com.

5) Take your .ico file and copy it into the the root directory of your
web site (the main directory that contains all your HTML pages). Now
every time a visitor bookmarks your site, your icon is copied into their
cache file and displays whenever that visitor returns.

6) To test your finished favicon, get a friend or colleague to bookmark
your site and then open a new browser window. You can bookmark your own
site but you generally only get one attempt at this so it's best to save
it for when you are sure you're happy with your finished favicon.
Alternatively, dump your cache and open a new browser window between
tries. If you did it correctly, you should see your shiny new favicon
appear in your favorites list next to your site listing and also next to
your URL in the address field of your browser.

That's it, you're done! You now have an eye-catching icon representing
your web site in the favorites list of all your visitors. A
professional impact for very little effort.

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The above article may be re-published as long as the content remains
unchanged and the following paragraph is included at the end of the
article, including the URL links:

About the Author:

Article by Kalena Jordan, one of the first search engine optimization
experts in Australia, who is well known and respected in the industry,
particularly in the U.S. As well as running her own SEO business Web
Rank (www.webrank.biz), Kalena manages Search Engine College
(www.searchenginecollege.com), an online training institution offering
instructor-led short courses and downloadable self-study courses in
Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing subjects.

Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Philadelphia, PA

Thanks again for the prompt response.

Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Philadelphia, PA

This tool will do it for you.

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/