Lady Alustriel

May 28, 2003 06:11 PM

Adding a Favicon to your Board.

What's a Favicon? Favicons are those tiny pictures that appear in your Favorites Menu in place of the boring blue-grey "e" that you normally see beside your bookmarks if you use Internet Explorer. .Ico files are also the pictures you see on your desktop, taskbar and anytime you browse through your computer files.

You can create your own 16 x 16 icon file (and it must be a 16 x 16 .ico file, no other file type/size will work) or you can use one you find off the net. Visit this site for some pretty good instructions on how to make your own icons.

Associate the icon with your board by uploading your icon to an image server and adding the below shown line of HTML code in the Javascript section of your wrapper. This line of code includes a link tag that specifies the location and name of the favicon file.

Code:

 

<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="URL of Your Favicon File.ico" />

To see how your favicon looks, open Internet Explorer, go online and add your site to your Favorites list.

If your Favicon doesn't appear immediately, it should do so if you close and reopen IE.

If it's still not there, go to Organize Favorites. Remove all existing links to your pages. Then add them again.


That should do it! Anytime someone bookmarks your board, this tiny icon will appear on their Favorites Menu.

Quote:

 

If I wanted to add a favicon to my website [not my forum] where would I put the code in the html?

Helen