I am having a play around with our website and am determined to add an address bar icon. I have read up various ways to do it and am convinced that I have the code right. I have also placed a 16x16 icon in the root directory, which can be viewed here......

http://www.ap-tuning.co.uk/favicon.ico

However, it still doesn't work. All I can see wrong is that sometimes if you open the link above, the logo doesn't display immediately and you have to either refresh it or click 'show picture', before it will work.

What am I doing wrong??!!

 

Absolutely no idea!

HTH

 

I don't think the browser likes displaying .ico files if you right click it AND select "Show picture" it displays ok, I would convert the ICON file to a gif or jpeg then I think it will work fine

 

you certain its a .ico ?? because when i try to save it using Mozilla Firefox it states its a Jpeg actually favicon.ico.jpg

what did you create the icon with ? it looks as if it was done with paint or photoshop rather than a specific icon editor

also your code is wrong
Open up index.html, and add this line after any meta tags in the HEAD section but before the </head>.

<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://yoursitedotcom.here/favicon.ico">

If you are in a user directory, without a domain, add something like this instead:

<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://yoursitedotcom.here/yourdir/favicon.ico">

 

where you getting the source code from? that link christian has put up simply points to the file favicon.ico at my end

 

its a JPEG... it is ... its a JPEG

Do I win a prize... do I get to drive your car

 

I did only use a paint package for it, I just find it odd that I can get it to display, but only once you refresh it. At that point it's no different to a normal picture?

So, can I use a .jpg?

Also, everywhere else in my coding, I use '/picturename.jpg' for pictures in the root directory. I don't have to use the full address. What's that all about?

 

hold on a sec thats not an ICO file LOL!!! its a jpg just rename the extension to .jpg and it should be ok

 

Go to the home page http://www.ap-tuning.co.uk/ and view the page source

 

its not displaying because its not in the correct format for the file extension, obviously different browsers will apply differing levels of intelligence to trying to display it

 

think its supposed to be renamed to ico myself

glad to see someone else has typo's as bad as I do in general

 

OK, so how do I create a proper .ico file?

And, No, you don't. But a passenger ride wouldn't be a problem. (when its fixed)

 

But, if you open it and right-click on it, it's a .ico file!!!

 

why do you want it as an ico file .... you will need to buy/steal an icon editor from somewhere or other that can import image files. However ico files are a very specialised thing and importing a jpg usually looks shit as it would need drawing from scratch to look nice, but you can only try

 

I just want to display that little logo in the address bar, thats all!!

So, what if I rename it as a .jpg and change the code?

 

Option 1... download and rename it (although this can cause problems displaying in certain browsers)
Option 2 download a icon editor such as the one found at http://ranfo.com/iconedit.html open the file in that and save it to the correct format
Option 3 Change your mind about letting me drive you car and I will email you it j/k

if you want me to email you one I can do, its np... just having dinner at the moment

 

nope can not do, simply because not all browsers can display .jpg or .jpeg in the title bar and as such will not display to all people

 

just looked at the source, PMSL I see now, yeh you need an icon file

 

Why not resave the image in Photoshop as "Save for Web" as a .jpg. Will work then with no probs.

Also have you checked this on Mozilla and IE as these browsers interpret code differently

 

Hold on...... Wait there!!!!!

 

I have just used Irfanview to save the file as a proper Windows Icon file and it still doesn't fooking work!!

 

C&B try clearing out your cache and you should be able to see the favico then. I had that trouble as well when changing the favico on my site and clearing out my cache on firefox worked

 

the file is not a icon (ico) and it needs to be otherwise it will not display in every browsers address bar, which is the objective.. the favorite icon requires an absolute path which is why the URL is required... failure to follow this can create issues with specific browsers such as Safari.
You can use a jpeg for this however it will not work correctly in all browsers which negates the point of doing such... currently the file also has a double extension favicon.ico.jpg this is common practice for viruses which use this technique to hide executable files from the average user as such some combined antiviral / firewall applications may freak out as the file currently stands as it looks suspect.

make it an ico... fix the coding and all will be exceptionally happy

 

it is now defo an icon however it doesn't display here even after clearing out the internet cache, but google groups does with the same code so its weird??

the only other thing I can think of is if your ISP/Hosting company is using some form of caching on a proxy etc. then it may take sometime to be refreshed.

 

not a Windows icon file people do own Mac's, Linux Boxes and other things

Its must be a normal ico and not a microsoft flavor which has the possibility of increased colour depth

try this online generator to create the file you require...

http://www.graphicsguru.com/favicon.php

 

fooking hell I wouldn't bother seems like rocket science LOL!!!

anyway I can edit you .ico file here in the .NET icon editor so why its not displaying here in IE7 on Windows XP is a mystery unless you need this pure .ico format for it to work???

 

Working fine for me

 

yea working for me now

In Mozilla Firefox, IE6 and Opera



Guess im definitly not getting the keys... lol

 

right deleted my cookies, internet history and temporary files closed down IE and restarted and now its working for me to

phew I'll sleep better now tonight

 

could of been proxy caching seen this before especially on unix hosting.

 

you ok now christian

 

Looks like it's working for me now too!! CheeRS for your help guys. Particularly you, Unseen Menace!!