Url adress icon?

by MobilTuner January 1st 2007, 10:45 pm

Can i change the url adress icon in the adress line?
There is a gold cup there with a green + sign. its annoying.
Confused

by Guest January 2nd 2007, 5:48 pm

Yes, it's called a Favicon.

Here's the code:

Dragon Man wrote:This will make a small icon appear next to the website address.
Look at the small picture at the top of the screen.

It makes it easier to pick out in the bookmarks.

First of all make a small icon picture that is 16*16 pixels.

Host it here.

Insert this code into the "Other Meta Tags" of the Homepage section of the Admin Panel. (Administration Panel > General Admin > Homepage)

Code:
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="http://url_du_favicon.ico" /> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="http://url_du_favicon" />

Replace "http://url_du_favicon.ico" with the address that the link supplied and you should have a favicon.

Regards,
Dragon Man

by Bad Wolf January 2nd 2007, 5:55 pm

MobilTuner wrote:Can i change the url adress icon in the adress line?
There is a gold cup there with a green + sign. its annoying.

go to your boards ACP (admin control panel)
go to Homepage
in the section marked - 'other meta tags'

add the following:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://my image url"/>

tadDa

*edit*
LOL
looks like u beat me to it Dragon man Wink

nem

by MobilTuner January 2nd 2007, 6:06 pm

Thanks guys

by MobilTuner January 3rd 2007, 4:36 pm

I have sucsessfully added the icon now, but it only shows
on the main forum page, when im going into forums,
the standard gold cup icon comes again, any ideas? Confused

by Dude Mistro January 4th 2007, 1:35 pm

Yeh thats a good idea how do you make it so it's not only on the homepage?

by Samcarine January 4th 2007, 7:36 pm

great .. the second script worked with me .. not the irst one ..
but it only appears on the Homepage or the INDEX not when you go to anyother section .. is that normal ??

by Bad Wolf January 4th 2007, 8:42 pm

im not quite sure with phpBB
i kno w/InvisionFree, you simply put the fave icon code in the meta tags

ill do some more testing to see what works best Wink