Shortcut Icon in Address Bar
 

(not sure which 'prefix' to use here)
I hadn't seen this anywhere when I did a search, so here goes...:

Add a unique Shortcut Icon (related to your forum content) in the browser address bar in front of the 'http://...." CNN has it, NOAA has it,IMDB has it.... lots of folks have it... why not YOUR forum!

just add this code below/after the </title> tag in the templates (ie FORUMHOME, FORUMDISPLAY, GENERIC SHELL, search_forums, search_results....etc)
just insert the path (in red above) to the image you want to use.

examples below:

Reserved for future use

um dont vbulletin have this stock i see my fav icon in firefox and didnt change nothing except the icon in root...

Not really sure DM, I hadn't found it in my searches there or here. It works in Mozilla for my forum... replaced the 'standard' one that mozilla sticks up there with the image I chose to use....

the attachments below shcut-ex1 and shcut-ex2 show the 'standard' one mozilla sticks in there, shcut-ex3 show the one i use for my website and forum.

yeah you have to change the favicon.ico in root then it will display im lookin at mine on firefox now :)

ahhh, thanks, i did this awhile back while i was still using phpbb2, i muxt have forgotten about changing that too i guess, tho i don't really remember doing so.... i'm a bit of a goofball anyway... lol

np :)

A Favicon is considered a hack? You don't even need to make the changes listed here if you REPLACE THE EXISTING FAVICON FILE IN YOUR FORUM ROOT.

This is practically a web standard, do a search for "favicon". You definately do not need to modify a template to get this to work!

Are you sure about that?

I just placed my favicon in my forum's root and it does not do anything???

well then you didnt do something right... did you overwrite the stock vbulletin one?

every vbulletin comes stock with there icon as default well 3.5 and up.... im not sure about other version like 3.0 and stuff i never used them....

also you need to check where you upload it too your not in your root..... your in your forums folder if this is your link look here
http://www.weapondepot.com/forums/favicon.ico

I put a copy in my forum root and my absolute root just to be sure.

I tried doing the favicon.ico thing (and I *did* upload to the correct place) but it didn't change anything. The only way it worked was to add the Shortcut Icon code with the path to a gif/jpg/png/etc image to the various templates...

nah it will work as long as its in the root... i had my vbulletin one in there for months... i-e sometimes dont show it until you book mark it but firefox will :)

You need to bookmark it as most browsers seem to cache it. If you add the bookmark it will usually display it properly (IE is still a bit wierd about it).

Why don't you just put your file with the name 'favicon.ico' into you forum's folder? The browser will automatically search for it and display it when needed. :)

how can i create my own favicon?

Not sure what this hack does, but I previously customized my favicon by following these instructions:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....40&postcount=2

I copied a new favico into my webtoot and then I pasted this line into my headinclude-template:

That's the only way I got it to work for all browsers.

This did not work for me either.. Copied the new favicon to my forums root directory and added this above code in my headinclude-template: and saved exit the browser and back in and the icon did not show up in either Firefox or IE..

exactly
The only work around for it I found was changing the templates by adding the code in the first post. Again it still doesn't work for IE, but does for Mozilla and FF

For further reference: http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

[QUOTE=xtremeoff-road]Are you sure about that?

I just placed my favicon in my forum's root and it does not do anything???[/QUOTE]

clear your history files, temp internet files, cookies, re-bookmark your page, lol. if none of those don't work, you didn't do it right.

All you need to do is overwrite the current Favicon.ico

If it doesn't work, just clear your cache and try again. Worked for me after I did that on my boards.

ok i had same problems using .gif so i changed it all too "favicon.ico" put it in root folder, closed my browser, cleared the cache and temp finternet files etc etc , reloaded and it worked great in FF

OFFICIALLY SPEAKING:
FAVICON

HTML Tag in HEAD Section:
To link your html or xhtml file to a favicon, there are some different approaches:

Standard: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
W3C Standard "best practised": <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
DepreciatedA.1:<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/favicon.ico" />A.3)
So it is best practise to use just 2 tags: (for "official" compliance)

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

for some custom templates, just replacing the default favicon doesn't do it and you gotta add the code to templates, like the header or forumhome etc.

It needs to be added to the Header Template in order to appear on all pages with FF. Just include the code at the very top

Thank you very much!!