Tip 120: How to associate an icon with your webpage? (called 'Favicon')

An interesting feature of the Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (and higher) is called ’Favicon’.
Associate an icon with your homepage now.
If somebody adds your page to his favorites, IE will access the file favicon.ico in the root folder of your domain and a small icon appears in his favorites list.

The same icon is used, if you drag and drop the URL to your desktop.

Example: Suppose you have a Geocities Page at /Area45/Home/4231.
Then you’ll need a Windows Icon File, just name it favicon.ico and place it in your Homepage directory.
(To avoid any problems it is strongly recommended to use a 16x16, 256 color version of your icon.)
Then add a line like:

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/Area45/Home/4231/favicon.ico">
in the <head> ... </head> section of your Homepage.

It’s very important to include the whole directory relative to the root of the webserver.
If you don’t use the LINK REL method, IE will automatically use the file: http://www.yourdomain.com/favicon.ico

Read the MS documentation here.

More info on Favicons.