# ICO question!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ico-question/27695>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 5, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ico-question/27695 "2003-08-05T18:29:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![balroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@balroo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/balroo)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ico-question/27695/1 "2003-08-05T18:29:42Z")

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hi there,

ive just created an ICO of my website logo… and just today i saw a particular website that had within his URL an ICO next to it of his logo, it also was there next to the website link when i saved it to my favourites and aswell as saving it as a shortcut to my desktop…:-\

in short…does anyone know how to do this , is there a particular code and process??

any help would be greatly appreciated!! :thumb:

thnx in advance !! 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ico-question/27695/2 "2003-08-05T18:35:26Z")

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Name your icon favicon.ico. (i think you must use exactly 16 x 16 pixels size and 16 colors).  
Now upload the file to your domain.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ico-question/27695/3 "2003-08-05T19:02:02Z")

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holy S thats cool 🙂 I had no idea lol

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ico-question/27695/4 "2003-08-05T19:04:21Z")

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Digitalosophy, Kirupaforuns has this feature.  
Try adding it to favorites and you’ll see.  
😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ico-question/27695/5 "2003-08-05T20:12:41Z")

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yea ya know what ur right…lolol (obviously)

thanks i think that is soo cool.

quick question where do you upload the file to? wwwroot?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ico-question/27695/6 "2003-08-05T20:16:18Z")

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Yep, upload it to the same directory as your HTML page.  
And i think this feature is available for IE5+ only.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ico-question/27695/7 "2003-08-05T21:01:31Z")

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koo thankx