site icons in IE 7

[md16185]

How do ya make the icon symbols that come up on certain sites? What I mean, is like right in front of the URL..

 

[Mr. Bond]

You mean a Favicon? Like this

for FP? It'll need to be in .ico format for it to work with IE 7. Am I correct in saying you have paid hosting, or at least FTP access? If so, then create the file for the icon, name it favicon.ico, edit it with photoshop (I've been able to edit .ico's fine with the gimp as well), then just upload it to your main directory, and it'll appear on all pages (and if saved in .ico format, it will show up in IE as well).

 

[Van1lla ™]

You dont need paid hosting or FTP access for it, as there was that way for people on FreeForums.org to put their own favicon icons in. I'll try and dig that up.

 

[CyberFreak]

That did seem quite long winded if i remember rightly.

 

[Van1lla ™]

But it can be done. -8)-

 

[Remy]

Yeah FreeForums.org made it where you put it in your description. I found that our like 2 or 3 months ago. I made one for TRZ... But it's not very good, as I used it with Paint. (I have GIMP, but I'm not good with it, and I don't have Photoshop)

 

[md16185]

oh saveit as an ".ico" file in the main directory.. cool... 🙂 thx.

 

[Mr. Bond]

You dont need paid hosting or FTP access for it, as there was that way for people on FreeForums.org to put their own favicon icons in. I'll try and dig that up.

With FF you can only put it on two pages, the portal (if you have it enabled) and the index page.
I was assuming they had FTP by the way their site was setup 😉
But you can put a favicon on sites without FTP by putting this anywhere on the page where HTML is enabled:

<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.mydomain.com/myicon.ico" />

But if you have FTP access, just uploading favicon.ico to the main directory is easier -D-

oh saveit as an ".ico" file in the main directory.. cool... 🙂 thx.

Make sure you save it as " favicon.ico " -😉-