yugiyoo Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Greetings everyone, look at your webbrowswer URL bar where you enter the website you want to visit. Do you see that minimized logo there on the far left corner? We've got it on this forum website and on popular websites. Question: How is that logo created? Does anyone have the key words so I can google this? Is this embedded in html code or some other script?Any help or valuable pointers will be helpful.Thanks alot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrateekSaxena Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 This is called a Favicon. You can write the follwing code to add your own Favicon- <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="http://example.com/myicon.png"> More info on the following page - W3C Favicon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrateekSaxena Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 You can create .ico files from your images file using Chami.com. They also have a very good gallery of Favicons that you can see here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yugiyoo Posted March 8, 2007 Author Share Posted March 8, 2007 This is called a Favicon. You can write the follwing code to add your own Favicon-<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="http://example.com/myicon.png"> More info on the following page - W3C Favicon Thank you very much Mr. Prateek! Have a great day sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anders Moen Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 I thought they had to be called favicon and saved as .ico files I =/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 It's better if they are, because some browsers will look specifically for /favicon.ico. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrateekSaxena Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 It is like it is better to have the index.html page but it can b something else too, if you change the htaccess(I think) It could be an animated GIF as well!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Right, but older browsers will ignore the icon link meta tag, and instead just look for /favicon.ico. If you check server logs for any server, you will see a ton of requests for /favicon.ico, regardless of if you have one or what the page says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrateekSaxena Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 That is IE 5.5 stuff right??Rarely anyone uses that now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 According to my server logs, IE6, IE7, Safari, Opera, and Firefox 1.0+ are all looking for /favicon.ico, and some AOL browser. This has always been called favicon.ico. As far as I can see, there is no reason not to call it that. Add the meta tag if you want, but still call it favicon.ico.[28/Feb/2007:07:32:00 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"[28/Feb/2007:09:53:12 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "ee://aol/http"[28/Feb/2007:10:12:59 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.0" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"[28/Feb/2007:11:06:24 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1"[28/Feb/2007:12:16:41 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2"[28/Feb/2007:12:34:29 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070216 Firefox/1.5.0.10"[28/Feb/2007:14:54:18 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google Desktop)"[28/Feb/2007:19:17:37 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"[01/Mar/2007:18:03:13 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 (ax)"[12/Mar/2007:17:45:19 -0700] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - "/login.php" "Opera/9.01 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrateekSaxena Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Alright, from next time I will use favicon.ico only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aryaman Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 ive tried putting a favicon on my blog but it gives an error. Can i put a favicon on blogspot?xyyrus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aryaman Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 i meen that can I replace the blogger favicon with my own favicon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakor Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 Yes, just erase the favicon that they have in your blog folder and replace it with yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrateekSaxena Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Hey Aryaman,As I told you before you will first have to write - <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="http://example.com/myicon.png"> Upload a 16X16 image file somewhere like http://geocities.com and then paste the URL of the image in the HREF part of the above given code Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aryaman Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Thank you. Actually i had posted my fvicon on my blog... well that wasnt working. thanks neways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrateekSaxena Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Your welcome....you can call me after 24th March Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anders Moen Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Thank you. Actually i had posted my fvicon on my blog... well that wasnt working. thanks newaysHave you called it favicon.ico? Or else it won't work in all browsers. And if you use IE6 (or below) and maybe IE7 (don't know), it doesn't work.And the code to get it is<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"> and not <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="http://example.com/myicon.png"> It might be a good idea to have type="image/something" too, but I don't know how that code goes with favicons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrateekSaxena Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 the guys is using blogger, he cant change that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anders Moen Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 Ohh...something I didn't get in the previous posts then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrateekSaxena Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 He never posted it. I know the guy personally, he is in my schools so I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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