Well, this falls more in the category of nerdy tutorial than crafty tutorial, but I thought it might be helpful to some people. I have been wondering for a while how to get a little personalized icon for my website that would show up in the address bar and bookmarks, but I didn’t have time to figure it out. The other day I put my googling skills to work, and you may have noticed (or not, I don’t really blame you if you didn’t) that this cute thimble now appears next to my website address (you may have to clear out your cache for it to show up the first time).

If you have a website and want a Favicon (that’s what they’re called apparently, FAVorite ICON) like this , I found these instructions on this site.

First, make an image that is 16 pixels by 16 pixels exactly. Then save it as or rename it favicon.ico. Then upload it to your server in the same directory as your main index page. Last step, in the code of your index page, somewhere between the <head> and </head> tags, insert the line <link REL=”SHORTCUT ICON” HREF=”http://www.yourdomain.com/favicon.ico”>, and remember to put your own domain name in.

That’s all I know about that, so if you are having troubles with it, you can try to ask me for help, but I probably won’t know the answer. I just thought I would pass along the information as a public service, since this little thing made me feel so happy when I figured it out!