An artist buddy of mine created a little favorites bookmark icon for my web site [they're properly called favicons or, if you want to use the name of the file, "favicon.ico" files] but I don't know how to specify on my pages that I have one of these favorites icons. Can you offer up the HTML I need?...

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One of the features added to the latest revision of the Apple iPhone operating system that's garnered quite a bit of attention is the ability to save Web page bookmark icons directly on the main screen of the phone. Experimentation reveals that some sites have cool icons while most are just miniature representations of the Web site. What's the difference? Read on and find out, including step-by-step directions on how you can easily ensure your...

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Dave, I'm enjoying your new book Growing Your Business with Google. However, I have a question relating to your advice to post navigation links on the right rather than the left side: I understand that doing so could improve results placement, but this improvement might be less important than ease of use of the site. Other authorities point out that left-side navigation links are more-or-less standard, and that users are more likely to stay with...

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Dave, I'm now running the slick new Mac OS X Tiger operating system from Apple, and amy trying to get up to speed with the RSS reader built into the new version of Safari. Very nice, but... it doesn't seem to know that my Weblogs have RSS feeds! How do I tweak my blog so Safari can see the feed and offer a one-button subscription for Tiger users?...

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Hello Dave, I work on Mac OS X and I have been trying to add a favicon.ico to my website's address bar, only to find that it only shows when I open it with Netscape or Firefox, all the other browsers like Safari and Explorer don't seem to recognize it.... Can you help?? It is driving me mad......

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Dave, prior to my finding your great article on Can I selectively Remove Safari Favicon Icons? I took the brute force strategy of deleting all the cached icons in the Safari library folder so that the browser would see my new favicon. But now instead of showing the favicon.ico graphic, crazy Safari doesn't show me any favorite icons at all. What could be wrong?...

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I've been slowly adding all the nifty features to my new Web site and am going a bit crazy with Safari. I changed my favicon.ico favorites icon for my Web site, but Safari insists that it's not right, though when I view the site in Firefox, Camino or any other browser it's fine. How do I get Safari to be happy?...

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if your browser shows the little icons next to URLs - in which case you should see a lightbulb next to the booktalk URL right now - then you might be asking yourself how you build these favicon.ico graphics and incorporate them into your own Web site....

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