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Icon Problem 2

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kwunder

kwunder

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I used to get proper individual icons for most of the sites stored in my favourites folder, now they have all defaulted to the standard "blue e". Why is this ? Also, can someone explain SIMPLY how to assign an icon to my own web pages please ?

Cheers
 
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Got an icon converter. Converted it to 16 x 16, uploaded to server, added the other html to the homepage, but yes, you guessed it, still a blue e. But then so are all my favourites icons as well. Can you give the URL a try tp see if my new favicon works

 
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Here's the thing, on my site there is an icon installed and working. I created it with IconEdit which is (basic) freeware from and ftp'd it to the root directory of my site. It is 32x32 in 16 colours and seems to work fine. See if you can get the icon so you know whether you IE is not working properly.
 
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It must be a problem with your browser settings...the icon showed up for me.

I recently got mine to work again but I'm not sure what fixed it--I tried so much stuff.

One of the easiest things to try would be to go to add/remove programs and use the Repair tool for Internet Explorer...Then bookmark your page and see if the icon shows up.
 
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Thanks guys. I went to and there was no icon. clicked my site, Hurrah ! my icon was there ! went back to woodcom and it was there second time around. I've just had a quick glance and mine and the woodcom icon are the only one in my favourites folder (contents about 100 sites +. The strange thing is, my site is listed in two categories, and the icon only appeared in one of them ???so i deleted it, then re-bookmarked it and then it was there. Is there a simpler way to refresh all the icons from all sites in one go without visiting each one, deleteing it and then re-bookmarking them all ? Quite why they disappeared in the first place remains a mystery

Thanks again guys, you'll get my vote.

kwunder
;-) ;-)
 
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Thanks Paul. Nice little prog that FavOrg. Restored all my icons. Only trouble is, I can't see mine again. I changed the icon for another with identical properties, and now I can't see it.
I'll get there in the end

Thanks
Much appreciated
 
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I don't believe this ! I have just visited my site, and the original icon is back, which I have deleted from my server webspace. Despite replacing the icon on the server AND deleting all cookies & temp files, the old one is back and not the new one !!!!!!!
%-(
 
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I suspect what you may be seeing is what you ISP has cached, if you force a refresh it may just go away.
 
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Sorry, but I've been back to the server and deleted the home page & favicon, re uploaded both, and still no icon. They are there for all other sites, but not mine. Could you just one last time check my URL to see if they're working for you

Thanks

 
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Oh dear, no icon! I couldn't even view it directly using are you sure it's there because I think that should have got 'round the ISP web server cache I mentioned last time. Incidently if you hold the Ctrl key down and hit F5 it should force the server to reload from file rather than cache so you can see exactly what the files are doing.

At this time 9:06 BST there does not appear to be a favicon.ico file in your root directory.
 
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I've now gone back to the beginning. Created a new 32 x 32 icon with 16 colours. added
<link rel=&quot;shortcut icon&quot; href=&quot;&quot; />
to the home page under the top <head> tag. I have then used WS_FTP to remove the home page and previous icon from my server, and then uploaded the new homepage and icon.

STILL NO ICON !!!!!!
Not on my machine anyway

Paul ?
 
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Hmm, ever start to doubt your sanity?

I just took at look at the source code and you have an extra forward slash at the end of the <link rel> tag. That needs removing and see what happens otherwise

If there is no icon file at that URL, I can only suppose that
1. It didn't upload properly
2. It uploaded to the wrong place
3. It's not called favicon.ico, watch out for upper and lower case on Unix/Linux servers
4. Your ISP doesn't fully support icons.

OK, last one is unlikely, since we have seen it!

Use your ftp program to make sure the file is there, that it's not zero Kb in size, and that it's not called FavIcon.icon or some such.

Here's hoping X-)
 
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OK Paul. I've removed the excess / from the end of the html line, uploaded the home page to the server, and, this is rediculous......The old, first icon I used is back. I have deleted any trace of this from my PC AND from the server, but still it shows rather than the new one I've sent !

The plot thickens ????????
>:-<
 
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Check with your ISP that there is no time lag between uploading and files going live, and that their server is updating properly. Everything else seems OK.
 
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Thanks Paul. I have previously checked for any delay between uploading and the files being displayed and it is instant, no delay. I have e-mailed them about the problem, but as is the case with many, they takes days & days to reply. They just want you to ring the quid a minute line !

 
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I'm off to a darkened room for a while! I'll let you know if I come up with anything.
 
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yes 16 x 16 and 32 x 32. If you can see my icon, that tells me it MUST be on the server ? Correct ?
 
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by the way, if the icon you can see is not a white &quot;S&quot; on a dark background, but a photo of two people, then this the icon I removed from the server and replaced with the &quot;S&quot;.
 
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Yep, it's there, but it doesn't like something about it... If you have one already created that is 16x16 you could try uploading it...

Oh, I did notice from viewing your source code that it looks like you have a hard return before the &quot;> in the icon link. This shouldn't make a difference, but taking it (the return) out might be worth a try...

Otherwise, I'm out of ideas.
 
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