is there a way you can assign one to a url?

some sites have them some dont....just wondering what the techhie side to it is.. its only a little thing but i think it makes a site appear more funky :)

I used to have a 'V' (obviously for vbulletin) next to the SF on my favourites but now it's gone....very bizarre as not altered anything knowingly!!

:confused:

Majority just have the IE blue icon!

yeah this has the V... like a few other forums ive seen before.. but ebay has a logo, google does...play, amazon..etc...

You can select your own icon my right clicking on the IE icon selecting properties and then 'change icon'....:)

yeah but i want EVERYONE who goes on a site to see it.... its not just or my benefit

You could always just add a smiley icon...:P

Icon generating tool (from pic of your choice) & instructions here (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/)...

... look here:

http://www.sean.co.uk/a/webdesign/favicon.ico.shtm

Originally posted by Shiesh
I used to have a 'V' (obviously for vbulletin) next to the SF on my favourites but now it's gone....very bizarre as not altered anything knowingly!!

:confused:

Majority just have the IE blue icon!

It disappeared because you may have cleared out your internet history, cookies or temorary internet files etc. It may have also been removed because the limit for temporary internet files was reached and deleted it because it was the oldest.

To bring it back, simply delete that bookmark and re-set it.

Originally posted by widemonk
It disappeared because you may have cleared out your internet history, cookies or temorary internet files etc. It may have also been removed because the limit for temporary internet files was reached and deleted it because it was the oldest.

To bring it back, simply delete that bookmark and re-set it.

Thanks for that - I did clear out temp files recently...:thumbsup:

I sometimes make these Icons for my websites, but they don't work reliably in web browsers, they are not picked up every time, I think it depends how bloated the Browser's Cache is.

It would be really nice if they worked better and were more realiable.

Icons are great because then websites are easier to find in your favourites. And then the list looks pretty :P

thanks all :thumbsup: will look into it 2mos

Originally posted by muddycoffee
It would be really nice if they worked better and were more realiable.

I've not noticed any problems with favicon.icos not being displayed properly in FF, though I do know that IE often gets "confused" or has "issues" with regard to favicons (same as pngs with alpha transparancies - but that's not for this thread;)).


MTheo - Design a 32X32 pixel Bitmap image of the Icon, then use IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/) to convert it to an ICO format with the name favicon & upload this file to the ROOT dir of your website.

Originally posted by sccsux
MTheo - Design a 32X32 pixel Bitmap image of the Icon, then use IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/) to convert it to an ICO format with the name favicon & upload this file to the ROOT dir of your website.

That's pretty much exactly what I did to get mine. Easy when you know how. :wink:

Originally posted by SilentStatic
Icons are great because then websites are easier to find in your favourites. And then the list looks pretty :P

Or you could organise them into folders, like me!

:-)