studio eight favicon

[Doreen Peri]

I created a fav icon for studio eight ... you know.. those little icons that appear in your address bar right before the address after you save a page as a favorite

anyway... it's not working

if anybody knows how to do this, please let me know

i saved it as an ico file, gave it this name "favicon.ico" and put it in my root directory

i also added this code to the main index page in the header

LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.studioeight.tv/favicon.ico"

But it isn't working on the index page... or anywhere else... I read that all you need to do is put that code on ONE page and it should work on all the pages but maybe that's wrong and I need to put code on all the pages... I donno. Do you?

And the code isn't working anyway.

lol

i'm such a techy ditz... can anybody help me?

Here's what it looks like, btw

http://studioeight.tv/favicon.ico

[judih]

very cool, doreen
hope someone can lend a tidbit of wisdom.

i'm still in the US- due to head back next week. If i get my html bearings, i might learn something then.

j

[Doreen Peri]

Hope someone can help, too, judih!

Wish you'd stay in the states for now and not go back there!

I'm concerned! I want you to be safe!

(not that there's any guarantee everybody can be safe here but bombs aren't going off here right now, yanno?)

[Anonymous-one]

try changing the extention of the file to :
.jpg .png or .xpm ; Since the .ico file ext.
is used only in a Explorer (windows) browser.

And you should change the path name in the
code to where you uploaded the studio eight
icon.

LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.studioeight.tv/favicon.ico"

to (exemple):

LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.studioeight.tv/root folder/favicon.ico"

Keeping my fingers crossed... A-One

[Doreen Peri]

hmmm.. from everything i read it seems the file has to be an .ico file ... and even though it's a windows explorer file, apparently all the other browsers recognize it... I'm using Safari for Mac right now and I see all the .ico files from other sites (well i'm assuming their .ico files since when i looked up "favicon" that's the only instructions i found is to save it as a .ico file"

hey now hey now.. ico ico (that's a song but i can't type the rest of the words because they must be in another language or else i've just never understood what they meant)

i found an open source photoshop filter to make sure i could save it as an ico file..

hmmm...

not sure if "rootfolder" would work or not... hmm... that folder is called "public html" .. maybe i should use that in the code but then again nothing else that's on the site needs the public html folder name to appear

hmmm

lol

i keep going .. "hmmm"...

too funny

gonna look up favicon again to see if another format could work

thanks for your help

[mtmynd]

[Anonymous-one]

Maybe this is the path to enlightnemt... :

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.studioeight.tv/public html/favicon.ico">

It just hit me !
Use the full URL like this :

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/index.php/public
html/favicon.ico">

Think this <> was missing from the code

Keep me posted .

A-One

[firsty]

i see it for an instant when i loaded this page, then it switched to the old one.

hm.

i think you did it right. i have noticed that favicons dont always work, depending on browsers. i also remember, on my old forum, that i had one favicon, then i improved it, and for some reason, the old one continued to show up in some browsers even tho the new one showed up in other browsers.

it might be a cookie thing. i'll try cleaning the cookies and cache and see if that works.

[firsty]

ok hey hey. now it's working. now it's not. it works while pages are loading (for me), but once a page is loaded, the favicon switches. i'm using camino (mozilla/firefox).

the problem with these forums is that so much of the content of each page is determined by the php/mySQL code. fucking pain in the ass. try posting the question on the phpbb forums.

[Doreen Peri]

really??? you see it working on occasion, firsty?

i haven't seen it work once... not on IE, not on Safari, not on Firefox

i did something right????

lol

guess i need to figure out why it's only working off-and-on...

i didn't put it on this phpbb index page.. i only put the code on the index page of the whole site... maybe i need to add it to this index page too and that will fix it so it works here all the time anyway..

doesn't work at all for me on any page

phpbb forums? good idea

thanks a-one for your suggestion...

and thanks, firsty

(i donno why this little icon thingy is so important to me... i guess 'cause everybody else has one, i want one too! )

[Doreen Peri]

ps - i see a host m favicon using firefox but not my white 8 in a black background

maybe i need to contact the host and get there's off there!

in safari & ie, all i see is the regular www globe

is this the favicon you see, firsty, when the page is loading?

http://studioeight.tv/favicon.ico

[firsty]

yep, thats it. actually, you're probably onto something with the icon - if thats the host icon, you might need to add more code to override it. it might help to contact the host as well.

i actually first saw the favicon a few days ago, so it's been off-an-on working for a bit now.

[Anonymous-one]

I see the icon for a split second when the page is loading.
I'm using a firefox browser on a Fedora core O.S.

Maybe if you delete the "M" icon code all together :

<link rel="icon"
href="templates/Conundrum/images/favicon.ico" />

Or , try this :

-Rename your icon file "Studio8.ico" , place it in the
Conundrum/images/ folder .

-Delete "favicon.ico" in the code line and replace it with
the Studio8.ico file like this:

<link rel="icon"
href="templates/Conundrum/images/Studio8.ico"/>

I'll log in later , of to work. A-One

[stilltrucking]

I have seen it ever since you posted that link
I see it every time I click on the link
A small 8 in a tiny black square.

[Anonymous-one]

Got this from "Mobster" over at Chronix radio...

Upload the ICO file to, say, images/favicon.ico. Then add the following lines in the includes/my_header.php file(or wherever your header file is), somewhere between the "<?php" and "?>" tags:

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

If this doesn't work , i don't know what will .
I'm all out of ideas. A-One .