[INFO]Adding A Favicon To Your Board

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[INFO]Adding A Favicon To Your Board; Bookmark Icons
Topic Started: May 28 2003, 06:11 PM (27,362 Views)
Lady Alustriel	May 28 2003, 06:11 PM Post #1
Madd Doller Posts: 620 Group: Members Member #234 Joined: December 20, 2002	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.



RDF	May 28 2003, 06:53 PM Post #2
Anthro artist Posts: 225 Group: Members Member #650 Joined: February 23, 2003	The code works, and if you are wondering IE resizes icons to 16x16 when they are used for favourite ico's.



Isaac	May 29 2003, 01:34 PM Post #3
euh? right =\| Posts: 83 Group: Members Member #1,820 Joined: May 24, 2003	doesn't work here i get a cirkel with an I in it...



lightsup55	May 29 2003, 05:21 PM Post #4
Member Posts: 6,502 Group: Members Member #399 Joined: January 19, 2003 I'm Browsing With Firefox 3 My Board URL http://spyforum.spyw.com/	Isaac May 29, 02:34 PM doesn't work here i get a cirkel with an I in it... You need to re-read the instructions again an get an icon maker to make .ico files. You can download Microangelo (an icon maker) at http://www.microangelo.us/ You should be able to open your gif file and save it as a .ico file. Then change this: Quote: <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://67.18.37.15/64/70/upload/post-13-1054233026.gif" /> To this: Quote: <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.yoursite.com/favico.ico" />



Soul	May 30 2003, 12:04 PM Post #5
Member Posts: 135 Group: Members Member #366 Joined: January 14, 2003	Thx it worked great!



Ado	Dec 14 2003, 04:28 AM Post #6
Member Posts: 10 Group: Members Member #7,649 Joined: November 19, 2003	Could someone help me with this? I copy/pasted the code replacing URL of Your Favicon File.ico with the URL to my image which I checked and rechecked to be sure it was the proper extension. I pasted it into the Javascript Wrapper. Is there anything wrong with what I did?



cokesta	Jun 30 2004, 01:03 AM Post #7
Member Posts: 34 Group: Members Member #22,972 Joined: June 30, 2004	Where Can I Upload An Ico File?



cokesta	Jun 30 2004, 05:37 PM Post #8
Member Posts: 34 Group: Members Member #22,972 Joined: June 30, 2004	It won't work. Code: `<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://cokesta.topcities.com/Icon.ico"/>`



SSS	Jul 25 2004, 03:16 PM Post #9
Member Posts: 516 Group: Members Member #397 Joined: January 18, 2003	cokesta June 30, 2004 05:37 PM It won't work. Code: `<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://cokesta.topcities.com/Icon.ico"/>` Same for me. I just get a circle with an I in it instead of mine.



Virus002	Jul 25 2004, 04:55 PM Post #10
I can make sigs... Just not too well Posts: 64 Group: Members Member #16,186 Joined: April 7, 2004	cokesta June 30, 2004 01:03 AM Where Can I Upload An Ico File? www.freewebs.com



zackdude23	Aug 5 2004, 02:51 PM Post #11
InvisionFree Guru Posts: 121 Group: Members Member #3,526 Joined: July 27, 2003	Virus002 July 25, 2004 04:55 PM cokesta June 30, 2004 01:03 AM Where Can I Upload An Ico File? www.freewebs.com no, freewebs doesn't allow hotlinking just upload it in a post on your message board.



Cipher Born	Sep 3 2004, 07:44 AM Post #12
Member Posts: 24 Group: Members Member #26,893 Joined: August 10, 2004	No that doesn't work either.IF doesn't allow uploading of .ico files.I also tried uploading it as an emoticon but that doesn't work either. Is there another upload site???



MikeMania	Sep 3 2004, 11:30 PM Post #13
Confused Posts: 377 Group: Members Member #26,732 Joined: August 8, 2004	angelfire...you can upload virtuarlly anything and BTW, i found this slmost a year ago, upload your pic then it d/ls a ico file to be uploaded. http://www.html-kit.com/e/favicon.cgi



Nindgod	Jan 16 2005, 07:49 PM Post #14
Chu!! Posts: 73 Group: Members Member #23,376 Joined: July 4, 2004	it shows a little grey box wtf?



alexp2_ad	Jan 25 2005, 04:04 PM Post #15
Member Posts: 1 Group: Members Member #42,610 Joined: January 25, 2005	Great code, never knew ya could do that... using it on my blogspot page! Thanks!



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