Address bar icons - Help

I know this isn't realy travel technology but I need some help and I am sure someone here has the knowledge.

I am trying to add an icon to my website so it loads into the address bar (and favourites/bookmarks) when the page loads.

So, I created a 32x32 bitmap, which I then converted to an icon, name the icon favicon.ico and put it in the root of my website.

Nothing!
So I searched the web and found an article saying if you have problems with this to add the following html to you page
[quote]


I added this and still nothing (although it 'sometimes' works in ie but not consistently)

So what am I doing wrong?

Should it load straight away into the address bar or does it need to be added as a favourite/bookmark first?

Does it work differently for firefox that ie?

Please, anyhelp appreciated as this tiny little issue is driving me mad.

Paul

[Pete]

Hi Paul,

The syntax you're looking for is



And I think the icon size needs to be 16x16 for the address bar.

Pee

This is something I've thought about a few times in the past but never been sufficiently moved to ask the question - so thanks Paul for doing it for me, and thanks Pix for the answer! I've now tinkered with one of the sites I have and have a snazzy address bar icon! The rest can wait until tomorrow!

Dave