panozfan Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 Is there a way to put an icon in the address bar on the web browser for an OsCommerce store? I have one I want to use & I have already resized it to 16x16 pixels but I don't know where to edit the html code for my oscommerce site. Can someone please help me? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 Is there a way to put an icon in the address bar on the web browser for an OsCommerce store? I have one I want to use & I have already resized it to 16x16 pixels but I don't know where to edit the html code for my oscommerce site. Can someone please help me? :huh: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nowt to do with oscommerce. Your pic needs to be an icon file or a gif save as favicon.ico then upload to your root directory. The webserver will serve it up (some browsers will only show it if your page has been bookmarked) thats all there is to it. It doesnt always appear immediately but clearing your local cache and refreshing the browser usually brings it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panozfan Posted July 13, 2005 Author Share Posted July 13, 2005 Nowt to do with oscommerce. Your pic needs to be an icon file or a gif save as favicon.ico then upload to your root directory. The webserver will serve it up (some browsers will only show it if your page has been bookmarked) thats all there is to it. It doesnt always appear immediately but clearing your local cache and refreshing the browser usually brings it up. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I tried to save the image as a favicon.ico but when I do that it wants to be downloaded as a zip file for some reason. (I am trying to do it from this web site http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/) Do you know of another way to save the icon as a favicon.ico? And once I do that where in my root directory do I upload it to? Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Make the image initially as a.bmp file in Microsoft's old Paint programme - on all Browsers since Win 95. Then click Save As and input this (with the quotes) "favicon.ico". If I were you I wouldn't bother though. The favicon thing only works on Firefox and Mozilla browsers, and old Internet Explorer browsers - doesn't work on IE6 (which is the most widely used browser). Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panozfan Posted July 13, 2005 Author Share Posted July 13, 2005 I tried to save the image as a favicon.ico but when I do that it wants to be downloaded as a zip file for some reason. (I am trying to do it from this web site http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/) Do you know of another way to save the icon as a favicon.ico? And once I do that where in my root directory do I upload it to? Thanks for your help. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think I've got the file saved as a favicon.ico but now I'm getting the error code: Could not find a <link ...> tag that specify a favicon. I don't know where to put this link tag. It just says to: * Add the following HTML tag to your web page below the <head> tag, before the </head> tag: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" > What part of my html do I put that in? (Please be specific, I'm just above 'newbie' at this.) ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 You put it between the <head> and </head> tags on your root level index.php page, and on any other page you want to add it. Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 You dont need to add the <link> tag, thats only if your hosting doesnt support favicons which is unlikely. Just having the favicon.ico file in the root folder is good enough. IE6 does support them as I mentioned after somone bookmarks your page. plus the error logs for the domains start to fill up with favicon.ico not found errors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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