favicon.ico
You my have noticed, in your 404 (file not found) logs, references to favicon.ico and wondered what it was. You may have also noticed when you bookmark many sites (Yahoo, Amazon, IMDB, etc.), they have custom icons next to the site name. These two events are related. Whenever you bookmark a site in IE, or even just visit a site in Mozilla Firefox, the browser looks for a file named favicon.ico in your web root directory (/public_html for example) and will use that as the site's icon. If it doesn't find the file, it uses a generic icon (and gets logged as a 404 error).
The favicon.ico file typically is a 16x16 (small) icon file (a derivative of a .bmp file?) that you need special software to create. You can also use the favicon creator at Chami.com to create the file from any graphics file. For best results, you should resize the file to 16x16 yourself before using it though. The smaller the file, the better the results will be.
Alternatively, you can include, for example, the following line in your web page's header:
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
Browsers like Safari and Firefox will use it to determine the location and type of the site icon.
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