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| Thread ID: 61655 | 2005-09-12 07:09:00 | How does this PressF1 get its own Icon in my Favourites folder. | John W (523) | Press F1 |
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| 387855 | 2005-09-12 07:09:00 | How does this Press F1 get its own Icon in my Favourites folder. Ive IE6, and Im wondering how this site gets it own unique icon in the Favourites sidebar, very few other sites have managed this feat. Thanks ................ John in Mosgiel. |
John W (523) | ||
| 387856 | 2005-09-12 07:11:00 | Fairly simply. By having an icon named favicon.ico on their website, IE will use this to 'dress up' the link. | wuppo (41) | ||
| 387857 | 2005-09-12 08:12:00 | Yahoo! does it too. You mean it's the only site in favs that has its own icon? The favicons work in firefox too. And thanks wuppo, had wondered how it was done myself. :) | mark c (247) | ||
| 387858 | 2005-09-12 09:06:00 | You can read more on favicons and their use here as well: Favicon (en.wikipedia.org) :) | Jen (38) | ||
| 387859 | 2005-09-12 20:25:00 | Ok, Ive had a go at this exercise, Ive made an Icon up, placed it in the home folder of the site - www.gijsc.co.nz, add the line to the Head of the Website, then saved the file, sent it back to the host site. Then I saved the site to my Favourites but still no Icon showing. I followed this set of Instructions. Any ideas where Ive gone wrong. The Home folder beng the GIJSC Folder hosted on the website, where index.htm resides. Thanks................. John in Mosgiel. __________________________________________________ ____________ en.wikipedia.org The original means of defining a favicon was by placing a file called favicon.ico in the root directory of a webserver. This would then automatically be used in Internet Explorer's favorites (bookmarks) display. Later, however, a more flexible system was created, using HTML to indicate the location of an icon for any given page. This is achieved using the link element like: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> in the <head> section of the document. In this way, any appropriately sized (16×16 pixels or larger) image can be used, and although many still use the .ico format, other browsers now also support the GIF and PNG image formats. |
John W (523) | ||
| 387860 | 2005-09-12 21:10:00 | If you put the favicon here, browsers *should* find it... www.gijsc.co.nz Also, no favicon is at www.gijsc.co.nz which is what i assume you mean by "the home folder" It helps if it is actually called favicon.ico Cheers...... |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 387861 | 2005-09-12 23:49:00 | Thanks, I renamed the icon in lower case, placed it in the home folder (as I thought I had done from the start. Does capitalisation matter when naming icons, photos at websites? Thanks again, works a treat. John in Mosgiel. |
John W (523) | ||
| 387862 | 2005-09-13 12:12:00 | I've tried doing the same to one of my websites without luck. I've placed the favicon.ico into the root directory but can't seem to edit the head section in my webpage. How do you insert the head /head tags in Frontpage 2003? I can't find that option anywhere....and the help file isn't much better. Cheers, Andrew P.S. Excellent thread John! |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 387863 | 2005-09-13 20:20:00 | Not sure how to edit script in frontpage directly, allthough i'm sure there is a way. :confused: It might be easier to just open the .html file using notepad and edit it with that. :D Firefox users will see the favicon located at www.your.site.con/favicon.ico with or without script to say it is there. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 387864 | 2005-09-14 08:32:00 | Hi Andrew93, I inserted it using Frontpage 03 . Take a look at www . gijsc . co . nz and (In IE6) select View / Source from the menubar . Inbetween the Head and Head a few lines further down, you can see the favicon line . Cut & paste that into your website and see how you go . Im must admitt i pasted that 766b icon file in a few directories before I finally go it to work . The Icon sites in the httpdocs folder, not in the home folder where index . htm resides . HTH, do you want to paste your site details, maybe others can help . Cheers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John in Mosgiel . |
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