Getting Web Page To Create Icon In "Favourites"

Bint Box · 2 Nov 2010 at 10:33

Hi,

Can anybody please tell me how I would get a forum website to create an icon in a users favourites in Internet Explorer or Firefox?

Most web sites seem to transmit a tiny logo or icon when stored in a users favourites and I wondered how this can be set up for bulletin boards such as SMF of phpBB using the board admin options.

For example, my favourites link for the Overclockers UK forum seems to be a tiny logo of a V, which looks like the vBulletin logo.

Rgds
Binty

GravyMonster · 2 Nov 2010 at 10:38

You need to create a favicon. Take a 32x32 image and run it through this.

Then put the favicon.ico file that spits out in the root directory of your site. You can also add a meta tag to specify the favicon, as sometimes the browsers are a little retarded in picking them up and need a helping hand.

Code:

<head>
   <link rel="icon" href="http://www.quotes.co.uk/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
</head>

Daveangle · 2 Nov 2010 at 10:39

Think this is the favicon within the header on a webpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon I know its wikipedia but will give you the basic information you need.

3dcandy · 2 Nov 2010 at 21:49

Spunkey said:
You need to create a favicon. Take a 32x32 image and run it through this.

Then put the favicon.ico file that spits out in the root directory of your site. You can also add a meta tag to specify the favicon, as sometimes the browsers are a little retarded in picking them up and need a helping hand.

Code:

<head> <link rel="icon" href="http://www.quotes.co.uk/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> </head>

+1 that's the proper way to do it.