Favicon problem

Pal71 · **Favicon problem -** 10-29-2008, 03:54 PM

Hi all, I have been reading other posts about trouble uploading a favicon, but it seems that none of the advises that were given work in my case.

Ok, I have made a favicon.ico (16x16px) and placed it in the root directory.
Beneath the head section from the index.html page I have tried several combinations of:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/public_html/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
I also tried the code without /public_html and alternately I tried it with the name of my website:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.ophidianforest.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
which wouldn't work either.

It's not clear to me whether the favicon should already be viewable when the code is placed in the index.html document, or that it should be placed beneath the head section of ALL the php and html docs from my website.

The favicon is indeed viewable when via the link:
http://www.ophidianforest.com/favicon.ico
all very nice of course, but useless, as I still can't see it on any page of the website.

I'm using Firefox 3.03 and I can also check things in IE.6 (with XP sp 2)

Does anyone have an idea what could be done? Thank you.

Lovsan · 11-01-2008, 11:37 AM

Pal71 · **Favicon works! One thing left... -** 11-02-2008, 12:45 PM

Yessss. Finally I got the bloody thing working.
You made my day with this, thanks!

Something I want to sort out now is how to make sure that visitors who bookmark my website won't see "http://www.ophidianforest.com" but simply "Ophidian Forest" next to the favicon. Perhaps I should pose this question in a new thread, perhaps someone out there knows how to change this easily?
Something in the index.html page? Or in the home.html page?

Thank you.

Lovsan · 11-02-2008, 03:51 PM

no probs, if u need more help u can add me to msn, pm for the msn if u wanna, i will cladly help ya.

Pal71 · 11-03-2008, 09:11 PM

The thing is, On IE6 the website name is displayed normally without "http://" and ".com" among the bookmarked pages. However, When I look at it with Firefox 3.03 (the browser I'm mostly using), I do get unwanted additions when it's bookmarked, and it just looks ugly, with or without a favicon.

dell · 11-10-2008, 05:34 PM

you have to upload your favicon to your root dir, then add the right tags, google will help you with knowing what to add, then let IE and the internet pick up your icon, you might have to clear your chache to see it, or wait till it updates.

iGFX · 11-11-2008, 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pal71

Yessss. Finally I got the bloody thing working.
You made my day with this, thanks!

Something I want to sort out now is how to make sure that visitors who bookmark my website won't see "http://www.ophidianforest.com" but simply "Ophidian Forest" next to the favicon. Perhaps I should pose this question in a new thread, perhaps someone out there knows how to change this easily?
Something in the index.html page? Or in the home.html page?

Thank you.

Perhaps by using the <title> tag

Pal71 · 11-13-2008, 09:45 PM

Well, beneath the <head> tag the index page has
<title>Ophidian Forest</title>, and not <title>http://www.Ophidian Forest.com</title>.
Like I said, this problem only arises in the bookmarking of Mozilla Firefox. I'm sure there must be a simple explanation for it.