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Design tip -- Favicons - that small icon in the address bar.

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Post October 29th, 2005, 12:34 pm

I know it's gravedigging, but I have one simple quick question. Is there a way to incorporate these favicons into an external css page? Or do I have to do it the hard way and apply the code to every single page of my website?
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Post October 29th, 2005, 12:34 pm

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Post October 29th, 2005, 2:01 pm

Really you don't even need the meta tag. Just drop the ico file in your root directory. The browsers will look for it and find it even without any code being there.
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Post October 29th, 2005, 5:00 pm

You mean just put it directly under the root directory? Lemme try it, though some of the other pages doesn't have that, only my main front page.

I tried putting it under the root directory the same as where the index.html page is, nothing happened, it seems that you would have to put in the line of code in every page.
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Post October 29th, 2005, 5:33 pm

What browser are you using?
IE is flawed. Try it in Firefox or Netscape or Mozilla

//edit - just view the source code for OZZU. you won't find a coded meta tag for the favicon anywhere.
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Post October 29th, 2005, 5:34 pm

If you want it to work in IE, you have to save the website as a favorite, and then click the favorite to get the favicon to display. Firefox just does it like it's suppose to.
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Post October 29th, 2005, 5:41 pm

Well, for the most part I'm using Safari, the latest version. I can make the favicons work, but I just can't seem to get it to work automatically for all or any pages I put up on my site.

http://ddstation.bizari.net

and this is another page:

http://ddstation.bizari.net/kirbofactory.html

I have the icon stored in a folder under the root diretory, and then another copy directly under the root. The splash page has that code written to have it appear:

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<LINK HREF="/ddsnav/ddicon.ico" rel="SHORTCUT ICON">


The other one doesn't have it, but according to what you said, it should have appeared.
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Post January 3rd, 2006, 10:35 pm

For excellent, FREE favicons go to http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/. I think there are 700. They're all really great.[/url]
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Post January 8th, 2006, 11:20 am

Well I've got the faviocon working in the address bar which is great! But it doesn't appear on the tabbed window bar in firefox like other site's have.

Does anyone know how to make it appear on the tab as well?

Thanks :)
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Post January 8th, 2006, 4:26 pm

All I do is place 'favicon.ico' in the public_html directory and IE and Firefox (tabs included) show it fine.
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Post February 19th, 2006, 5:37 pm

It also depends on what theme you use with firefox. Im using japan black and it doesnt have any favicons in the tabs. That may be something else I have set but I think its the theme itself. But if you havent changed themes and other sites favicons show up in the tabs and your doesnt I dont know what to tell you. Sorry
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Post June 14th, 2006, 5:21 am

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
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Post August 6th, 2006, 11:17 am

Gimp can both load and save ICO.
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Post August 6th, 2006, 4:36 pm

I use Infranview to convert images to ico files... too many options ;)
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Post September 1st, 2006, 7:58 pm

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this already but you can also just include this into your web page in your web pages <head> section

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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="your_image" />


I normally use .gif format
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Post November 27th, 2006, 11:53 pm

iconfactory makes the plugin for pshop if im not mistaken, its around 80$
its called icon builder XP, but I've always used michelangelo http://www.microangelo.us for as long as i remember :P
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