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Zugg
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Joined: 25 Sep 2000
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Location: Colorado, USA
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 Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:04 pm
Custom icon in Internet Explorer
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This is a really low priority, but I've noticed when you go to sites like Google, there is a custom icon that comes up in Internet Explorer for it (A blue G). Can anyone point me to a link on how to do that? It would be cool to have a zMUD "Z" for this site. Thanks.
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darmir
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Joined: 10 Oct 2000
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Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:25 pm
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You put the *.ico file into your parent directory.
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Rorso
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Zugg
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:43 pm
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Heh, that was easy 
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slicertool
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Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 7:04 pm
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make sure you toss a copy into the root folder of the emobius site (unless you want a different icon for that site)
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IceChild
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Joined: 11 Oct 2000
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Location: Post Falls, ID, USA
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:10 pm
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My personal preference for creating them is to go to a site like:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/
That site allows you to upload any picture, and it'll create a favicon.ico for you out of it. Pretty straight forward, and easy to use. Most *nix servers default to favicon.ico for the filename, though you can easily specify one using:
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| <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.mydomain.com/myicon.ico" /> |
Just thought I'd give out that generator link, might make things easier for you. |
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Rorso
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:19 pm
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| IceChild wrote: |
My personal preference for creating them is to go to a site like:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/
That site allows you to upload any picture, and it'll create a favicon.ico for you out of it. Pretty straight forward, and easy to use. Most *nix servers default to favicon.ico for the filename, though you can easily specify one using:
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| <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.mydomain.com/myicon.ico" /> |
Just thought I'd give out that generator link, might make things easier for you. |
I think it is the browser that looks for favicon.ico and not the server. The .ico file is only looked after when/if the site is bookmarked as well. Like right now I don't get the special icon in IE as I recently cleared the temporary internet files. If I do ctrl+d the icon appears. |
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IceChild
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Location: Post Falls, ID, USA
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:45 pm
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| I think it is the browser that looks for favicon.ico and not the server. The .ico file is only looked after when/if the site is bookmarked as well. Like right now I don't get the special icon in IE as I recently cleared the temporary internet files. If I do ctrl+d the icon appears. |
Ey, sorry, you're very correct on that. I was having a "quick" moment when I made that previous post. It is infact the browser which searches for it, and I do believe favicon.ico is the default for searching should another not be specified within the code. |
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darmir
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Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:58 pm
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I am not sure if everyone was clear on this, just to let everyone know. You don't need to put the following code on your page.
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If you don't want to put the above code on every page, all you need to do is put the icon in your root directory. The icon also has to be named favicon.ico.
If you want to use a different name or directory location you then need to put the above code on you pages. |
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