My Logo in the address bar

Just wont work for me..

[dbowler]

Hi there, am trying to create an icon in the address bar, if anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated.

The Web address I am trying to do it with is www.example.com and have inserted <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICon" HREF="favicon.ico"> in the html code between Head and /head. Yet it still doesnt work, Can anyone please assist I would really appreciate it.

Thanks Deborah :)

[edited by: trillianjedi at 6:08 pm (utc) on Dec. 3, 2006]
[edit reason] Please see our TOS, thanks ;) [/edit]

[jdMorgan]

Give it a MIME-type as well:

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

Three things to be aware of:

1) The icon file format must be .ico for older browsers -- There are many shareware/freeware programs that can be used to to convert to or create output images in this format.

2) Support for icons in IE6 browsers and older is poor; In order to see the icon, you'll need to flush your Temporary Internet Files using the Internet Options dialog box. Alternatively, you can try "dragging" the generic icon in the address bar to the end of the URL and releasing it there a few times. This often kicks IE6 into displaying your custom icon.

3) As soon as you flush your Temporary Internet Files again, or as soon as the cached page expires and gets overwritten by newer cached pages, the icon will no longer show when you view the page. See #2, "poor support."

MS has corrected this problem in IE7, and Mozilla browsers never had the problem, so you'll be OK going forward.

Jim

[jtara]

The Wikipedia article on this is pretty through:

[en.wikipedia.org...]

[dbowler]

Thank you thank you thank you..

Take a look let me know what you think..

[edited by: encyclo at 4:41 pm (utc) on Dec. 4, 2006]
[edit reason] no URLs please, see TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[MichaelBluejay]

Favicon looks great!

But scrolling text...ugh.

[dbowler]

Thanks for the feedback, what do you suggest, am not formally trained as yet so appreciate feedback good and bad.

[MichaelBluejay]

Um, well, no scrolling text. :) Scrolling text screams "Amateur", but what's more important is WHY it screams amateur: because it annoys visitors. The first rule of web design is not to annoy the people looking at your pages. Don't use anything that scrolls, jumps, blinks, or animates, unless the user has specifically pointed to it.

The next most important things, in my mind, are to minimize the amount of scrolling the user has to do, and to minimize the amount of clicking required to get around your site.

When you run into specific problems or have specific questions then post here again and you're sure to get some help.

[Leosghost]

agree with michaelbluejay ..except for the following caveat .

if your site is aimed at the asian market ..the more it blinks pops gyrates and flashes at yah ..the better

what is the visual cultural background of the visitor that you are aiming at is very important ..to the point of sometimes making multiple different design versions of the same site ..and serving them up depending on where the visitor is coming from

edit typo

[edited by: Leosghost at 11:21 am (utc) on Dec. 6, 2006]