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smilinjack · Jan 17, 2005

Happy New Year!
I am trying to add an icon to my URL so it will display in my address bar.
At: www.equipmentpolice.com, I have inserted at the fifth line: <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.equipmentpolice.com/ep.ico">
But nothing is showing.
Is this coded correctly?

Thanks,
Jack

iNod · Jan 17, 2005

yes the code is correct.

Did you put it between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags?

Like this

HTML:

<html>
<title>Page Title<title>
<head>
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.equipmentpolice.com/ep.ico">
other stuff
</head>
<body>

Body Junk
</body>
</html>

GL

smilinjack · Jan 17, 2005

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Thanks Nod!
It was between the two head tags but I moved the close tag up to where you had illustrated and I still don't see it; Do you?

Best,
Jack

dan_Vt · Jan 17, 2005

All you need to do is save the .ico file as "favicon.ico" and place it in the main folder, then you don't have to do any coding.

At least that's how I did it for my sites...

smilinjack · Jan 18, 2005

Thanks Dan!
I tried that. As you can see: www.equipmentpolice.com/favicon.ico , it's loaded.
I removed the code too, but still NG.
Your thoughts. . .

dan_Vt · Jan 18, 2005

smilinjack said:
Thanks Dan!
I tried that. As you can see: www.equipmentpolice.com/favicon.ico , it's loaded.
I removed the code too, but still NG.
Your thoughts. . .

When I went to the site the icon came up, so it looks like it's working for me (it came up in the Firefox address bar, didn't come up in the Explorer address bar but when I bookmarked it in Explorer the icon was visible in my favorites folder...but I'm using a very old version of Explorer here at work).

smilinjack · Jan 20, 2005

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Howdy Partners! :yell:
Can anybody tell me why the some of the links are not working at:http://www.equipmentpolice.com/go1.html ?
The bad ones are coded the same as the good so I can't figure it out.

Thanks,
Jack

Midano · Jan 20, 2005

Forget the code.
Just create an icon image. 16x16 pixels is optimal, but any square will work, although it can get pixelated while resizing to 16x16.
Name it favicon.ico
Place it in your site's root directory.
IE might have a trouble showing it (there's a glitch - if you have accessed the site from this particular computer before the favicon was uploaded). Firefox and Opera will see and show it immediately.

smilinjack · Jan 31, 2005

Many thanks to all who helped me with this!!!!
:wave:

Michau · Feb 3, 2005

The icon will never show under Internet Explorer UNLESS you add the site to Favorites.

smilinjack · Feb 3, 2005

Thanks Michau!!!

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