icon in address bar

[redice]

Hi,

Could someone kindly let me know how an icon is inserted in the address
bar, exacly as it is done for this website.
Please also let me know what size the logo has to be and its dpi

redice

[tneulinger]

check out this link:
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

i think this will help you

regards
tom

[redice]

cheers,
let me have a look and get back to u

[redice]

i get an error

Warning: md5_file(/tmp/phpeFNe3V): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/ddtools/public_html/favicon/indexalt.php on line 261

Warning: file_get_contents(/tmp/phpeFNe3V): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/ddtools/public_html/favicon/indexalt.php on line 269

Failed to read from uploaded file


What could be wrong

[jscheuer1]

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/s...5632#post15632

[tneulinger]

maybe you find an other fav icon generator somewhere

[jscheuer1]

There are plenty on the web, just Google favicon. The DD one should be back up soon. Also, you can make one with any decent icon editor, one which saves files to the .ico format.

[redice]

cheers all,

so once the icons made....
what next?

[Twey]

Upload, then use:

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico"/>

in each page to apply it to.

[jscheuer1]

Upload, then use:

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico"/>

in each page to apply it to.

That's pretty ugly looking html code, Twey, though it may work with some browsers. The future is not now. Anyways, no code is needed as long as you upload the favicon.ico to the root of your domain (assuming you have your own domain). If not, each page needs to be assigned the icon but the syntax is much simpler:

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

This goes in the head of the document. If the favicon.ico is not in the same directory as the page that you are linking it to, use an absolute path to the icon file:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.somedomain.com/~mypages/favicon.ico">

If you want to see the results of this in IE, be patient as it can take some time (days) to show up. You can usually coax it to show up by tugging at the default icon using a drag and drop motion a few times. Even so, it will probably disappear and reappear with a will of its own in IE. Other browsers will recognize and use it right away or after a single refresh unless something is wrong.