Bookmark icon

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