SD Needs a Bookmark Button!

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If you use IE 5 or Netscape 7 (Maybe 6) & you look at a website in the URL address window, just to the right of it is a little logo button, e.g. http://www.google.com/
has one.

The SD should make one, maybe they can even have a contest, since it’s really a pretty easy thing to do:

“How to do it? Create an icon, 16x16 pixels and 16 colors max. If you do not already have an icon creation utility, then download the shareware program Microangelo.

When your icon / brand logo is complete then make a copy of the file and rename it “favicon.ico”. Hint: If your logo, like ours, does not take advantage of the entire background - then make sure the background is transparent.

How to implement? Place the icon in the root directory of your website, ie. http://www.straightdope.com/

And that is it… Whenever browsers bookmark your website, your icon will appear in the favorites list next to the description - and also in the URL bar when accessed.”
http://www.stilmark.dk/tools/bookmark.html

How about it?

2

Oh, I forgot, you need to add this line of code to the page:
“<head>
<link REL = “SHORTCUT ICON” href=“http://yourwebsite.com/favicon.ico”>
</head>”

3

I’ll look into that handy.

4

I dunno that the SDMB needs a bookmark icon - but it’d be nice to have. OTOH, it’s one more document request to tax the server with, even if only for a teeny icon, and not all browsers will show it.

5

I don’t think we need it either; but it would be something cute, for not a lot of bandwidth. It’s only going to be as bad as the little picture of the word “go” next to the Forum Jump pulldown menu. We don’t need that.

6

I like it. But technically, you can make your own icon at home. I have the SD home page on my toolbar (easier access than Favorites in IE), and I just grabbed the icon from my system. I don’t even know what the icon originally was for, come to think of it.

7

I took the Cecil smiley (which is still available at http://home.earthlink.net/~awinkelried/smpoll1/), saved it as a 16-color bmp, went into the properties for my SDMB link and changed the icon. I didn’t change the size, so Windows auto-scaled it and it doesn’t look very good, but it works, more or less. Someone better at graphics could make it prettier.

8

Yeah, why not?

9

It would be easy to do for the Main SD page. I’m not sure how you would implement it in forum pages which are CGI generated. Im looking into that for myself.