I cannot get my favicon to appear in ie8. Can anyone else see it?
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Please let me know, if you can see it. If you can't please give me some direction on how to fix it.
Thanks in advance,
Derrick
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BillR wrote:
Margot,
It should be. Create your favicon and upload it to your root directory using an FTP program.
Now in VSD, click on the HTML tool and click on the "Header HTML" tab and add the favicon code.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yoursite.com/img/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="/img/favicon.ico">
You may need to play around with the href settings, and it seems that both sets of code are needed.
Margot,
It should be. Create your favicon and upload it to your root directory using an FTP program.
Now in VSD, click on the HTML tool and click on the "Header HTML" tab and add the favicon code.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yoursite.com/img/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="/img/favicon.ico">
You may need to play around with the href settings, and it seems that both sets of code are needed.
Hey Margot,
You can also upload an image to use as your favicon for free at: http://gravatar.com
I think gravatars and favicons are the same thing.
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Cary
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Derrick Wright wrote:
I cannot get my favicon to appear in ie8. Can anyone else see it?...
I cannot get my favicon to appear in ie8. Can anyone else see it?...
Instead of this:
<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="/favicon.ico">
try this:
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" href="/favicon.ico">
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I cannot get my favicon to appear in ie8. Can anyone else see it?
I have had the same problem, try compatability mode. Also I once had that a favicon refused to show up in ie8 and then suddenly a week later it showed up.
I normally use this code for a favicon
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.yourwebsite.com/favicon.ico" />
Cary
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My image editors are loading that favicon as bmp rather than the Windows icon format.
Derrick Wright
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Cary,
You were exactly correct! I did not convert the icon to the .ico format. Boy do I feel like a dufus.
Thanks again every for the help.
Derrick
You were exactly correct! I did not convert the icon to the .ico format. Boy do I feel like a dufus.
Thanks again every for the help.
Derrick
Derrick Wright
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Sorry for the typo.
It should be "Thank again everyone for the help."
Derrick
It should be "Thank again everyone for the help."
Derrick
Derrick Wright
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Sorry for the double typo
It should be "Thanks again everyone for the help."
Derrick
It should be "Thanks again everyone for the help."
Derrick
george barone
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I am having trouble getting my favicon to show up. I used Bill's suggested code above and loaded the favicon to my server. Here is the code in the header:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://dev2.georgebarone.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="http://dev2.georgebarone.com/favicon.ico">
The website is http://dev2.georgebarone.com/
and the favicon is at http://dev2.georgebarone.com/favicon.ico
I am running IE 8.
Any suggestions as to what i can try next?
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://dev2.georgebarone.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="http://dev2.georgebarone.com/favicon.ico">
The website is http://dev2.georgebarone.com/
and the favicon is at http://dev2.georgebarone.com/favicon.ico
I am running IE 8.
Any suggestions as to what i can try next?
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Cary
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Works for me in IE 8 and FF. IE will sometimes fail to show the latest favicon update due to caching if the page was viewed in IE before the favicon was created/changed.
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