Favicon

[Mort]

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

1) How many days is a "few" days for the icon to take effect?
I uploaded my .ico about a week ago and have been checking, and still nothing

I use Firefox.

[cr3ative]

PLEASE: Include the URL to your problematic webpage that you want help with.

Let's have a look to see if it works for us.

Otherwise, just upload favicon.ico to your root webfolder and that should work.

cr3ative

[Mort]

I've seen posts about the .ico file "needing" to be in the root folder. How true is that? Mine is not because someone else was nice enough to host my site, therefore all my stuff is in a sub-folder. But if you're curious...
http://www.fourdegrees.net/afterdark/

[mwinter]

I've seen posts about the .ico file "needing" to be in the root folder. How true is that?

Entirely, at least when using favicons. When Microsoft introduced the scheme so that icons could be associated with bookmark items, they decided that checking the root directory was the best way. I think it's stupid, mainly because server logs all over the world are full of 404 errors due to this mindless approach.

Mine is not because someone else was nice enough to host my site, therefore all my stuff is in a sub-folder.

There is an alternative: to use a link element to refer to the file. Microsoft chose the following format:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="...">

It, too, is a mistake as the rel attribute is a space separated list of link types, but it's stuck as well.

Whilst Microsoft will still only accept icon files with this method, some user agents will utilise other types, such as PNG. Mozilla (and possibly others) also accepts 'icon' on its own in the rel attribute, which is much more agreeable value.

Mike

[Mort]

Okay, so, to make it clear, I just moved the .ico file from my 'afterdark' folder to the root folder, assuming (I'm no prefessional at this) root is not the 'fourdegrees' folder, but the '/' folder, as my host has it, my site is 'afterdark' which is inside the 'fourdegrees' folder. Yes/no?

[jscheuer1]

I just visited the site and according to the server, the file mentioned in your index file:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="urlcon.ico" />

Is not there. According to this statement, the file, urlcon.ico should be found at this address:

http://www.fourdegrees.net/afterdark/urlcon.ico

upload it to that directory and it should show up at least for your index file.

[Mort]

Heh, Originally that's where I uploaded it to, but after a week, nothing. As of today, it's now in the root directory. Guess I'll have to wait another "few" days...?

[Mort]

Okay, I'm really not trying to make this complicated than it should be, so I apologize in advance.

After reading the instructions, slowly, I moved the .ico file to the 'fourdegrees' folder, so when I type in http://fourdegrees.net/urlcon.ico, it shows up, just like the instructions. I guess from here, here is where I wait a few days. Yes?

[Mort]

Sorry! One more question

Since the .ico file is in the '/fourdegrees' folder, do I
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="fourdgrees/urlcon.ico" />
or just
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="urlcon.ico" /> ...?

[jscheuer1]

With that location, best to use:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://fourdegrees.net/urlcon.ico">

on all the pages you want to have this icon. And, with FF it should show up almost immediately, after a few refresh pages at most. IE is the real slowpoke when it comes to recognizing these icons, sometimes (in IE only), tugging slightly a few times using a drag and drop motion at the default icon in the address bar will get it to refresh.