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
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
towards the top around what I thought was right after two lines of code that I thought were other meta tag lines.
I have cleared my IE 7 temp i-net files (cache I presume?) but I have yet to see our cool little O show up.
I type
http://www.optic-industries.com/favicon.ico
I can see it show up there.
Where did I go wrong here? I would like this little icon to be forced onto EVERYONE who comes to my site. I want to hear complaints about it in the newspapers in two days... That is how badly I want that to show up. So did I place the line of code into the wrong spot? I figured the meta tags should go before all of the if then statements in the meta.tpl...
Any help please feel free to correct me here.
stilly, the new webmaster...