Little Icon
 

When browing through websites, a small icon next to the pages title is displayed, im wondering how i can change this for my site?

you mean in the address bar? if that is what you are talking about, download something like Icon Forge.. open up PhotoShop.. create you a simple but nice 100x100 image for your icon.. import that into Icon Forge, convert it to 16x16 and save it as favicon.ico..

upload that to the root of your site.. for instance.. http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico should bring the image up..

a lot of search engine spiders look for that file these days.. if you don't have it, you will notice a ton of 404 errors in your log refering to favicon.ico..

great post 13th, back in the day didn't you have to link to em?

Thanks 13th. Was just wondering the same exact thing. :)

This is correct (usually) the following code would be helpful in your headinclude, on it's own line...

If icon is in your server root:
If icon is in your forum root:

This is great info... thanks.

Is their any way this ico will be seen all over the site..
It only shows up on my home page... not any of the other pages, not even .index.php

Placeing the bit of code in the headerinclude template that Natch suppled for you should work.

Vbulletin will automaticlly pick it up if you put it in your root directory....... No need for code.

hmm.. Their must be a waiting period for it to take affect?

I believe I placed mine in the forums directory with global.php index.php ect...... I dunno I am at work and cant access it via ftp right now.

I placed favicon.ico in the follow dir:
/favicon.ico
/public_html/favicon.ico
/public_html/vb/favicon.ico
/public_html/vb/admincp/favicon.ico

/vb being my forum dir.

Still only works on the links I add only? Not the threads or index.php

Mine never picked it up on it's own. I had to put the code in my templates.



If the original code that was provided earlier in this thread doesn't work try this. It's crude, but it should work.

where I have the text "the ico url' delete that and place the full url to whatever location you have your ico stored at between the "".

Place that code in your headerincludes template.

If that doesn't work let me know and I will give mine yet another look to make sure I didn't stash the code in any other templates as well.

I have had one in my root forever. Works great in FF IE doesnt like it.

Does IE even reconize ico's? I have never bothered to pay attention. It has been so long since I even used IE.

I have the code in there now. :(
Maybe its IE?

Do you have another browser like Foxfire by Mozilla that you could look at it in. If not, drop me a link and I can look from Foxfire to see if it is showing there.

EDIT: I looked at the one that you have listed as your home page. It is showing in the forum, bt not on your portal page. Try added the code to the portal template. As I have never run the portal, I don't know what template that would be.

I think IE strips whatever info is needed to display it.

Just cause of this thread I had to actualy open IE and look for myself. lol It does appear that ico's don't show. I think you might be correct mholtum.

I dont have Foxfire or Mozilla on this puter. I will boot linux in the mornin & try mozilla.
Yes, the site is same as my home page thisdarncar.com

Yours is showing in Foxfire. :) its a very cute little car.

My guess is that mholtum is correct, that IE just doesn't deal with them.

Like I said the only thing I see missing is it isn't showing in your portal, but my guess is you would have to edit a protal tempate for it to show in that case.

Doesnt work in IE yet it works in FF.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/9639.htm

IE is notorius for favicon issues. Funny enough the one trick they describe with clicking and draggign to the right a few times makes it show ;) Strange!

Below the <header>, I added this code to my header, headinclude, & adv_portal templates.
Works with mozilla... Must be IE :(

Thanks for all the help,

dreck

I found this info about holding & dragging the windows e icon to the right:
http://www.favicon.com/index.jsp?id=Internet+Explorer
It works..!
hehe.. Now all I have to do is get all my members to do the same, lol

it's IE, my firefox works perfect....

http://www.tunernetwork.com