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skaady

06-24-2007, 01:51 AM

Hi everyone,

Any tips on how to remove the Blue Host icon from the address bar and replacing it with my logo?

Thanks...Stan

Early Out

06-24-2007, 02:30 AM

Just upload your own favicon.ico file to the public_html directory.

To make sure it gets picked up, add these two lines to your pages:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

charlesgan

06-24-2007, 03:38 AM

i having problem with favicon for addon domain. where they not show up.

will this 2 lines works as well.

hofmax

06-24-2007, 06:46 AM

yes it will

skaady

06-24-2007, 09:57 AM

Thank you, EO. Your dealing with a photographer here. Don't know anything about how to add the two lines you suggest to my pages. BTW, I use Safari and Firefox as my browser.

Thanks...Stan

Just upload your own favicon.ico file to the public_html directory.

To make sure it gets picked up, add these two lines to your pages:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

AfroJoJo

06-24-2007, 10:09 AM

All you do is add those lines to each pages <head> section, then upload your own favicon.ico image.

Here is a great favicon generator. It also has an example with those lines of code. Though it only shows this one - <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />

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

Early Out

06-24-2007, 10:10 AM

When you create your website (however you do that), you're generating a page of HTML code, probably in a file called index.html. That's what gets uploaded to your website, and what gets called when you point your browser to www.yourdomain.com.

There's nothing magic about that file. It's actually just plain text - you can open it with any text editor. Those two lines should be inserted near the top, like directly under the <HEAD> tag (usually within the first few lines of the file).

I'm guessing you might not have a way to create an icon file, either, since that's usually not a part of most image-processing software packages. Here's a website you can visit (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/) that will take normal image files, and create .ico files from them.

Ferdinand

06-24-2007, 11:57 AM

skaady

06-24-2007, 03:14 PM

thanks again, EO. Sounds easy enough. I've followed the steps at http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/ using your quotes and still no luck. You can review the results here http://www.stankaady.com/

I have no trouble creating the favicon and uploading it, but I'm stuck on the index.html part.

Sorry.:(

When you create your website (however you do that), you're generating a page of HTML code, probably in a file called . That's what gets uploaded to your website, and what gets called when you point your browser to www.yourdomain.com.

There's nothing magic about that file. It's actually just plain text - you can open it with any text editor. Those two lines should be inserted near the top, like directly under the <HEAD> tag (usually within the first few lines of the file).

I'm guessing you might not have a way to create an icon file, either, since that's usually not a part of most image-processing software packages. Here's a website you can visit (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/) that will take normal image files, and create .ico files from them.

Early Out

06-24-2007, 03:42 PM

I'm seeing your new favicon on that page.

I'm not sure what you're doing however - you've got a page of HTML that is, in turn, displaying a page of HTML code. I don't know what that's all about!

You just need to insert those two lines of code directly under the <head> tag in your real home page. You appear to be using Word to create your page (ugh - Word produces really ugly HTML). All you need to do is let Word save the finished page, then open the resulting index.html file in Notepad, insert those two lines of code, and save it. I think inserting those lines in Word itself might be tricky.

skaady

07-16-2007, 03:45 PM

Thanks every one. I can see the favicon on other computers, but not mine, which is fine.

Thanks again for the help.

Best...Stan

[QUOTE=Early Out;35589]I'm seeing your new favicon on that page.

I'm not sure what you're doing however - you've got a page of HTML that is, in turn, displaying a page of HTML code. I don't know what that's all about!

factorygirl

08-22-2007, 08:41 AM

techguy

08-22-2007, 10:15 AM

hello,
thanks all for the above instructions, I have been following them and it works, BUT... it works only on Firefox, while Safari and explorer still show the bluehost icon - could somebody please suggest me what to do? the address is www.factorygirl.org thank you :-)
PS I wonder if this thread is still active...

It seems to work for Mozilla based browsers. I use a browser called Camino that is designed for Mac and I see your icon. I have not had a chance to play around with it on my site yet, but I will try to do that.

String.Parse

08-22-2007, 02:53 PM

You won't see the favico in Internet explorer (6 and below), but you shouldnt be using internet explorer anyway.....

factorygirl

08-27-2007, 06:01 AM

thank you, guys... what about safari? cheers to you

OrangeFeet

02-22-2008, 07:14 PM

im having trouble with the .ico extension. i went to the site to generated my icon and it apparently saved it, but i cant locate it anywhere on my comp.

Early Out

02-22-2008, 07:24 PM

im having trouble with the .ico extension. i went to the site to generated my icon and it apparently saved it, but i cant locate it anywhere on my comp.Not sure which site you're referring to, but the last time I hit one of those, the file was saved as a .zip file which contained the .ico file.

But didn't you tell the download where to save the file? If you don't remember where you told it to put the file, just go to the site again, and pay more attention when it downloads the result.

Vasily

02-23-2008, 02:48 PM

I'm betting the favicon not being displayed on your computer is a cache problem ... do a refresh in Firefox. In Safari, do a reset Safari; there's a "remove all website icons" option; I think that will do it.

Vasily