favicon doesn't seem to work

[scroce]

I know this should be simple, but it doesn't seem to work.

I made an icon the following way:

1. took a gif image and shrunk it down to 16x16 px using my graphics program (macromedia fireworks)

2. exported it to a .bmp format
3. named the .bmp file to favicon.ico and stuck it in my root directory.

it looks like an icon - but when I bookmark my site, no icon shows up. I asked another person who didn't have my site bookmarked to try, (i.e. 5.5) and they didn't get my icon either.

there's a missing piece to this puzzle, but I don't know what it is - maybe I didn't make the icon right?

Oddly enough, it does seem to work in Netscape 7.1 - although I don't think that browsers bookmarks support an icon, the icon does show up in the navigation bar.

what gives?


I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.

 

[scroce]

For the record, I tried that site both with IE 5.5 SP2 and NN 7.1 and was able to see the icon. When bookmarked with IE it recorded the icon in my bookmarks.

I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.

 

[scroce]

a little more info for the record:

Microsoft as this to say:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;257130

if link doesn't work, it's article 257130 , or Q257130

I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.