You've been asking for it!!
You've been clamoring for it!!
Now . . . here it is!!
Yes, I know, it looks like crap over the Web, but trust me, it looks great on a Windows desktop at 1024x768 resolution. It should look very presentable at any resolution from 800x600 upward.
Here are several alternate sets of instructions, since different browsers and versions of Windows may behave somewhat differently. Mac users, I regret that I've never so much as used a Mac once in my life, so I'm clueless as to specifics for your machines. Linux users: if you're advanced enough to handle using Linux, you shouldn't have any difficulty creating a symlink and assigning it this icon. You'll need to be running in graphical mode, of course . . . d'oh.
Try No. 1 first; if that fails go to No. 2. Regardless, as your first step begin by saving the icon image somewhere where you can easily access it—I suggest the desktop. IE users, right click and choose 'Save Picture As.' Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape users, right click and choose 'Save Image As.' Save the image as 'vertgame.ico'.
Strategy No. 1: Use your web browser to go to your usual starting point at Vertgame—normally that would be www.vertgame.com/, which enables use of both the menu and reading panes. Resize the browser about halfway between minimized and maximized. This is done by putting the mouse pointer on a corner of the frame so that the arrow changes to a diagonal double arrow, then left clicking and dragging the frame. The idea is to bare some of the desktop next to the browser window. If other windows are open behind the browser, close or minimize them until you can see the desktop.
Now place the mouse pointer over the little symbol just to the left of the site's URL in the browser address bar. What that symbol is will vary with the browser and the web site. It should be (but no guarantees) a small Raiders helmet, this site's mini-icon (actually known by web designers as a favicon) for browsers. Left click on that symbol and drag it to the desktop. When you release the mouse button a shortcut to Vertgame should be created. It will probably show an icon relating to your particular browser.
All that remains is to change the icon. Right-click on the new shortcut and choose Properties, then Change Icon. Select 'vertgame.ico', click OK, and you're done.
Strategy No. 2: Occasionally a browser will be stubborn and refuse to allow the desktop shortcuts to be created by dragging the favicon from the address bar as described above. In that case you have to settle for a shortcut pointing to your browser and use the icon for that; then, after the browser starts, find Vertgame in your Favorites or Bookmarks. Unless you want to designate Vertgame as a starting page, but even I don't want to see my site every time I start a web browser.So, on the desktop, press the (M)enu key (it has the mouse arrow pointing to lines; make sure no other keys are highlighted), then ne(W), then (S)hortcut. Browse to wherever you read vertgame on your machine (generally the same as the path to your browser) and click OK. Or drag your browser's executable file from Explorer to the desktop to create the shortcut that way. Right click on the new shortcut, choose Change Icon. Point to the Vertgame icon you saved and save it with your new shortcut to the desktop.
Last updated Wednesday, June 7, 2006
