how do i put an icon before the name of individual forums?

[Nadeemjp]

that is so nice of you my friend. i will visit your site as well and if get stuck will count on that help offer, thanx.

while we r at it, one thing i have been tryin to achieve.
many sites i have seen that when their address is typed in the url, they have a small logo of their site before the url address. how do i achieve that?

thanks

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just like vbulletin.org has the vbulletin mark before the url in the url bar.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Nadeemjp

while we r at it, one thing i have been tryin to achieve.
many sites i have seen that when their address is typed in the url, they have a small logo of their site before the url address. how do i achieve that?

thanks

--------------- Added 11 Sep 2009 at 06:30 ---------------

just like vbulletin.org has the vbulletin mark before the url in the url bar.

That is a favicon. Just google it and you'll find what you need to create one.

Originally Posted by Nadeemjp

thank you very much Timber Floor. This was a great help.
so this means that i iwll have to have 3 gif pictures for every forum i want to change icons of.
one is for new
one is for old
one is for locked

now the important task of creating these images is gonna be a problem.
can you please advice how to create these images?

thank you

You actually need five, although you could just copy one image for all of them I suppose. But, you do need to have all five of these made:

• forum_link.gif
• forum_new.gif
• forum_new_lock.gif
• forum_old.gif
• forum_old_lock.gif

[New Joe]

Originally Posted by Nadeemjp

just like vbulletin.org has the vbulletin mark before the url in the url bar.

This might also help, there is no need to upload anything, read the Thread and the comments and it will help you.


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hlight=favicon

[Nadeemjp]

ahhan, lynne and joe the information you both gave is very substantial and has really cleared my concepts.
thank you so much.
all of you have been of great great help.

best regards

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by the way, how long would it take for the favicon to appear in the url?

[Lynne]

I see a little green thing for your favicon for the site in your sig. Is that the one you are talking about? You may have to clear your browser cache in order to see it.

[TimberFloorAu]

We also use animated favicon. for supported browsers.



We created an animated gif at 50px x 50 px

Then use the code as such ( to display static or animated dependant on browser compatibility.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yourforum.com/forum/favicon.ico"/> <link rel="icon" href="http://www.yourforum.com/forum/animated_favicon1.gif" type="image/gif"/>

[Nadeemjp]

Actually i did not know how to put that little green pakistan flag in the url so i was trying pasting it on different locations.
but eversince you told me about favicon, i have removed it and placed favicon.
the favicon is currently located at
http://www.familybunker.com/favicon.ico

ok let me try clearing the cookies.

thanx