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Anyone know where to put a favicon icon to add to a bookmark

Made a page so you can bookmark but cannot get the favicon to display

Where would you put the link
Where would you put the favicon.ico

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >

Thanks

Garry

Bythe way found a brill site to make favicoms FREE

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

Just put favicon.ico in web root, without any link: http://www.inkjetcartridgesuk.com

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Yes done that dont seem to work

Garry

I haven't done this myself, but this info was in a post by Stephen Hatton:

To have your icon saved with the links, you need to put the following line in the home.tpl file in your Б─°/myshop/schemes/templates/2-columns/customer/home.tplБ─² file (or 2-columns_reversed, 3-columns_reversed, small_shop directory):
Б─°<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/favicon.ico">Б─² without the outside quotes just before the Б─°</HEAD>Б─² line.
This will embed the icon link into the header of each page.

Maybe it will help you.

Paul Dodman
e-business consultant
Lumino Internet
luminointernet.co.uk

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Ok put that code in

Customer/home.tpl

Still not adding icon??

Garry

I guess this may have something to do with the location of the favicon, but I notice that your code doesn't have the / before favicon.ico

Yours,
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >
the original:
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/favicon.ico">

Can't be sure this is the answer though.

Paul Dodman
e-business consultant
Lumino Internet
luminointernet.co.uk

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Mm the slash is in the home.tpl

Whre else do you mean ??

Garry

All I can tell from here is that the / doesn't appear in the html code for home.php or in the catalog. Sorry, but I don't know why it isn't there, but if it was me, this is what I would try and solve first.

If you want to email me a favicon, to save me making one, I will try and replicate the problem here and see if I can can get it working using this code.

Paul Dodman
e-business consultant
Lumino Internet
luminointernet.co.uk

Garry, problem is non existing/incorrect favicon.ico or server setting, take a look...I can't see favicon using direct link:
http://www.inkjetcartridgesuk.com/favicon.ico

You can put the following line in the home.tpl file to be 100% secure about favicon link:

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Thank you

Zagi

Yep favicon no good

Thanks to Paul as well

Garry

Try with this favicon.ico...use it if you like it:

http://www.7dana.com/img/favicon.ico

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Thank you Zaga


Your very kind
Put it up on my site but when you bookmark just a black box ???

Garry

Put the following line in the meta.tpl...after last META tag.

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Thank you Zaja

That worked

You have been very helpfull

Garry

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Thanks! :D

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This is not working for me. I placed the icon in the meta.tpl but my icon isn't showing up. :(

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Take a look:

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woah.... thats wierd, it's not changing on my comp. I've even restarted the browser. hrmm, wonder if I cleared my browser cache/settings...

Yup... there we go, had to delete cache and stuff. Works now...

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Everyone is saying to put the actual favicon image file in the web root, but where exactly is that? I am a newbie to this and I kind of know that it isn't in the xcart directory so where exactly in public_html do I put it if that is where?

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Hi, your root level is the "highest" level directory you have access to. Depending on your server configuration this could be public_html or httpd or www in my case. (on a shared server that is, a dedicated server will give higher access) In your case just upload your favicon.ico into public_html and refresh your browser. Then it should display the icon as intended.

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clear your browser cache too, I had to in order for it to show up for me.

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hi, is it possible to upload a favicon in to favicon.ico ?
i thought i should be possible, but when i do so it gaves all strang signs in the images/favicon.ico

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???

You upload favicon.ico to your root directory

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

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you mean in skin1css ? there is nothing pointing to favicon
there is a favicon look at
http://www.promenada.nl/favicon.ico
but i don`t know how it came there, if i look at images the favicon.ico is empty.
i`ve searched the threads but i don`t now where to look.

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I'm not sure that I understand your questions, but if you want display the favicon icon in web browser just put favicon.ico image in web root, don't edit skin1.css or any other template file.

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ok, i understand but how do you put it in the web root, you mean customer /home.tpl ?

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from the beginning to make things clear:
there is a favicon on my site but i don`t know how it came there. it is a stange favicon so i searched in images there was a file named favicon.ico i opend it and it was empty. so i made a new favicon and put it in this file.
I also searched skincss and cutomer/main.tpl but there was no line with favicon mentioned in this thread.
so i searched the root. there were only 3 files in. i must be a small thing but it don`t know were to look anymore, what am i doing wrong ?

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The file favicon.ico is the little icon displayed just to the left of the URL in the bar of your web browser. It is a 16 pixel by 16 pixel bitmap image. There are several web sites that can create a favicon.ico for you from a image you supply, just Google favicon maker online".

Once you have you favicon.ico, just upload it to the root (public_html) folder of your web site, and that is it, you are done!

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Hello Jwait, thanx but this info i allready read on the forum.
problem is when i upload favicon.ico the system says :"allready exits"
and public html do you mean staticpages ?

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Overwrite it then. It should be the root folder, public_html. It is the folder people see when they go to www.yoursite.com.

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Thanks JWAIT, i know what went wrong, the html folder was not on my computer. so now things are more clear.
i only have acces to the admin store and not my html files (engineer left for holidays)
thanks anyway and sorry for such a simple question.

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Not to resurect a dead thread, but can we clear this stuff up from the start to finish?

My web knowledge is pretty decent (enough to get me basic web master skills and know how things work)
X-cart is NEW to me and so is css and tpl and omg what else is new...
I have made my own favicon.ico.
Simply put I took part of our logo (the O) and made it into a 16x16 favicon.ico with photoshop and a plugin.

then I used icoFX 1.6 (freeware) and actually made it a legit 16x16 with 16 colors Windows Icon.

I then put it into the root directory or the public_html folder on my site. My site is http://www.optic-industries.com

Following the advice earlier on in this thread I edited my meta.tpl and inserted

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Works for me in IE7.
It took a while to come in, as the site with all the graphics loaded quite slowly, and the favicon came in last - but it works.

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Stilly: I also see your favicon. It looks good and the page loads very fast for me.

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Thank you yes.

I finally saw it today when I was at work. I was like, Hey, how did that occur when it was not showing up last night.

I guess I was just too impatient in waiting for it to show up. :(

I have some other issues that I need to work out with the site now including all of the little hidden texts and stuff. I noticed that when I googled it I saw it was number 4 on the list, but then the description of the site said it was an x-cart site and blah blah blah and not a description of the clothing line itself so I have to seek that out now and change it.

Thank you for having a look and being fast with the reply. I know how web stuff works, my only question is WHY did it not show up on my computer right after I loaded it up? Yeah. I am still not seeing it on my editing computer. I will delete all of the files and see what is up with it. I am usinhg ie 7 too but it is not showing up... heh. I just deleted all of my i-net files and settings. Okay it works now. :\

Now then. I am left wondering if I needed to edit that one meta.tpl file or if I just needed to put the favicon into the directory. Any suggestions? Should I just leave it alone? I am wondering if it might come back to haunt me if I was not supposed to put it in there... :\

Thank you for the feedback. I have a few more things to tackle now...