h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Nice entry! I've seen these, obviously, but I had no idea they had a name. Most of the time I find that if a site has one, it no longer appears on my favourites menu after a while, which is odd.

Anyway, good job.

Thanks!

I've no idea why they go 'in and out' either.

I only got interested in the little blighters when I set up a website and was looking at the 'server-logs' one day. The logs were full of messages saying something like 'ERROR 304-HTTP://favicon.ico not found in this directory' and I thought

So a quick (well about 2 days later) Googly and I found out all about about them. Read up, solved my problem and thought someone like might need the info one day - hence the Guide Entry.

I've noticed that h2g2's BBC icon someimes appears and sometimes doesn't, on no regular basis that I can discover. I've never noticed a customised icon for any other pages.

TRiG.

Actually, they're becoming increasingly common. Or perhaps I just notice them more.

When a geeky web-designer friend downloaded Apache onto my laptop so that I could play with the http://localhost/ site, it came complete with an Apache favico. I just came here to read up on how to create my own, which I'm now going to experiment with.

TRiG.

Aha! Thanks for the info, now to hope I can insert one into my page on Webcomicsnation...

16x16 px is the same size as a standard h2g2 smiley, for reference.