Favicon.ico

[dawsonmm]

Hi,

a lot of sites now are using favicon as a part of their setups to dress up their sites and as bit of a marketing tool. Could this be included in a future release of Ezimerchant

regards

Michelle

[bjs1965]

It's easy enough to do yourself, this is the best site I have found so far to help ...

http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/

Cheers, Brendan

[dferguson]

Hi

A favicon is just an icon file placed in the root html folder of your webserver.

If you get an icon file made just stick it into the BUILDXXXX folder (where XXXX is your registration number) and then upload..

ezimerchant will upload the file to the server for you - that is all there is to it.

[dawsonmm]

Hi Guys,

thanks for the replies. I have tried David's sugestion and it does upload it no problems however for some reason it doesnt show on the url address line nor in the favourites. Any ideas as to why?

regards

Michelle

[adrianlacy]

i also tried it and it worked but i also added to the html code on th eindex pages in the build folder as instructed on the webite indicated as a good one on a below thread
it works fine,
however, David, will this be wiped out when i next change my index page content and rebuild?
if so how do we add the code to the site to prevent this?

[dawsonmm]

Hi,

interesting stuff here. I am using IE7 on one machine and it looks as though just having it in the web site root is not enough to make it work. If I view my website under IE6 it works OK. IE7 works on other web sites using the HTML as discussed on the favicon web site but I can't seem to get it to work on mine under IE7 no matter what I do. IE6 no problems though. Any ideas

regards

Michelle

[dawsonmm]

Oh re the build directory. I believe this gets wiped. I have tried including the html <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" > in style directory templates which does load it into the build directory but it still refuses to work under IE7.

regards

Michelle

[dawsonmm]

Sorry last post should read theme directory not style directory.

Michelle

[dferguson]

Hi Michelle

Basically all browsers in my experience are useless at displaying the Favicon reliably.

You don't need to put any code into the HTML - As long as the icon file is on the server that is all you need to do.

I have IE7 beta 2 and it displays Favicons for incorrect sites (it gets them mixed up) So they still have some bugs to work out. I also have FireFox and it displays your Favicon as well.

[space_kidette]

The Favicon issue is a known IE bug. Basically it is known that the favicon, correctly installed, will not show on the PC it is implemented on (don't know the reason why - sorry). But it does work and does show on other PCs - so just check with your friends to see if they can see it.

It also a requirement that a 16 x 16 image is used.

I have experimented with 32 x 32 images (basically because the end finish was superior) and it has been a bit hit and miss (displays on some PCs, not on others - I suspect this is a browser version issue).