Bookmark icon

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How Do I Get My Own Bookmark Icon (aka Favicon.ico)?

So, like your favorite hosting company, you've done your branding, naming, sloganeering, and got a logo or two:

http://www.dreamhost.com/images/logo.png
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/skins/common/images/wiki.png

You've been Building_A_Website and filling it with content.

What else could your website need? One last, small detail.

A bookmark icon (aka favicon.ico), that's what!

Like this one: http://dash-test.dreamhosters.com/images/favicon_1_16x16x32.png (http://www.dreamhost.com/favicon.ico)

How do you get one, make one, and use one? There are too many details to cover now, but here's some pointers:

http://www.w3.org/2005/10/howto-favicon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

GNU icoutils package for Linux

One Last Thing

Why doesn't this wiki or The Forum have one?