how do you put a graphic in a link that's saved as a favorite?
You know when you save a link in your favorites folder and some have logos and some don't........... how do you make it so when someone saves your sites link it includes your logo?
You know when you save a link in your favorites folder and some have logos and some don't........... how do you make it so when someone saves your sites link it includes your logo?
Renegade posted this at 01:28 — 18th November 2005.
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The little graphic that you see is called the favicon. TWF has one.
Firstly, you find or create an icon and put it up on your web server then link to it with this piece of code:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">Roo posted this at 07:55 — 18th November 2005.
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Just an FYI...it does not need to be name 'favicon'. You can call it whatever you want...i.e. myicon.ico.
chrishirst posted this at 08:35 — 18th November 2005.
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but FF, NN and Opera will always look for favicon.ico when a page is visited. Only IE uses it solely for bookmarks.
Megan posted this at 14:48 — 18th November 2005.
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And you have to make it in a proper icon program otherwise some browsers will have difficulties with it. I think the modern browsers (O, FF etc.) will accept gif or png there but IE needs it to be a proper icon. I think - might be a little off on that. I just did the TWF icon a few weeks ago and we did have some problems with IE.
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Roo posted this at 16:20 — 18th November 2005.
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Not true. I never use 'favicon', I use unique names, and the icons are right there in the address bar and in my bookmarks the way they should be.
Roo
chrishirst posted this at 18:19 — 18th November 2005.
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That's very tRoo
provided you use the otherwise it will look for the default name.
DaveyBoy posted this at 20:49 — 18th November 2005.
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I've made an icon and put that code in there...but the icon isn't showing, any idea why?
Megan posted this at 21:13 — 18th November 2005.
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What did you use to create it? Is it not showing in all browsers or just certain ones? Is it a proper icon (created by an icon program) or is it a gif or png file?
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DaveyBoy posted this at 21:19 — 18th November 2005.
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just made it in paint, and saved it as .ico
doesn't show at all
Megan posted this at 21:35 — 18th November 2005.
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Use a proper icon program - there are a number of different options for that. I forget which one I used - will check when I get home and post back.
The great thing about that is you can copy a PNG file right in and create the icon from there. So I was able to take my TWF graphics from Fireworks, resize to 16x16, then import into the icon program.
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DaveyBoy posted this at 21:53 — 18th November 2005.
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awesome, cheers megs
Megan posted this at 22:56 — 18th November 2005.
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This is the program I used:
http://www.iconempire.com/free-icon-editor/index.htm
That company has a lot of icon stuff on there, they've also go this one:
http://www.iconempire.com/iconcraft/index.htm
which looks better maybe and has an unlimited trial period (the first one was 15 day trial)
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DaveyBoy posted this at 23:14 — 18th November 2005.
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yeah i created one in an icon program and it still doesn't work - thanks for the links though. reckon it could be an issue with my hosting or anything?
cbc58 posted this at 16:43 — 19th November 2005.
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Thanks all for the info.
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