Help with Favicon

26 Jun 2008, 20:21

#1

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Help with Favicon

I am just wondering what I did wrong. the favicon is in the right directory public_html the code is already in zencart but the darn thing still wont show? www.thewishplace.com can anyone tell me why it wont show is there some reason why it wont show?

thanks
avie :)

26 Jun 2008, 20:33

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charmedbytina2

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Re: Help with Favicon

Have you cleared your browser cache?

And added your site to your favorites?

Is the favicon saved as a .ico?

Try adding the favicon.ico to your directory root?

Tina

26 Jun 2008, 20:34

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zevink

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Re: Help with Favicon

Its working for me. Try clearing your temp and cache. I had that problem also, it worked for me. :wink:

26 Jun 2008, 20:37

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zevink

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Re: Help with Favicon

charmedbytina2:
Have you cleared your browser cache?

And added your site to your favorites?

Is the favicon saved as a .ico?

Try adding the favicon.ico to your directory root?

Tina

Good point on the directory root. That is were mine lives.

charmedbytina2 - We must have posted at the same time.

AvieF - its working.

26 Jun 2008, 21:20

#5

avief

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Re: Help with Favicon

i cleared everything lol let me try again thanks for checking :)

27 Jun 2008, 00:43

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akidworld

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Re: Help with Favicon

AvieF:
i cleared everything lol let me try again thanks for checking :)

i had that problem too. what i did is to give the full path of where my ico file is. try check the path of the .iso file.

27 Jun 2008, 02:31

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avief

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Re: Help with Favicon

like this right

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

27 Jun 2008, 02:53

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zevink

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Re: Help with Favicon

like this right

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

Yes go to your web browser and type in http://www.thewishplace.com/favicon.ico:yes:

That should load the picture/icon in the browser. Then try your site homepage.

Another trick is to bookmark your site and that should also help it show.

It took mine a few weeks to change. I was using one and switched to the current one and for some reason it took almost a week to switch. I even cleared the cache and everything. :frusty:

Just give it time... I can see it is working for new visitors.:clap:

27 Jun 2008, 03:08

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zevink

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Re: Help with Favicon

zevink:
Yes go to your web browser and type in http://www.thewishplace.com/favicon.ico:yes:

I stand corrected.:oops: You need to go to http://www.thewishplace.com/store/favicon.ico

Sorry for the mistake.

like this right

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

I would change it to

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.thewishplace.com/store/favicon.ico">

But I would like someone to verify this. I guess it would not hurt to try.

Any way its working for me. WP with a star above.

27 Jun 2008, 05:01

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davewest

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Re: Help with Favicon

zevink:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.thewishplace.com/store/favicon.ico">

But I would like someone to verify this.

Your on the right track.. just need to add the 'type' to the ending. Here the three basic ways different browsers see a shortcut icon. For IE see's it one way and firefox finds it another.... I used all three on my page to cover as many browsers as I can. Also, using a gif has other uses, such as the firefox search engine.

<link rel="icon" href="includes/templates/YOURFOLDER/images/icons/icon.gif" type="image/gif" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="includes/templates/YOURFOLDER/images/icons/icon.gif" type="image/gif" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="includes/templates/YOURFOLDER/images/icons/icon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

The code for above in 'html_header.php'

<?php if (defined('FAVICON')) { ?>
<link rel="icon" href="<?php echo FAVICON2; ?>" type="image/gif" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo FAVICON2; ?>" type="image/gif" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo FAVICON; ?>" type="image/x-icon" />
<?php } //endif FAVICON ?>

You can set the path to your icons in 'includes/languages/english/YOURFOLDER/meta_tags.php'

Firefox pickup the icon so it is working for it..