Address bar image [Archive] - The Church Webmasters' Forum

doctorknobs

Wed., Jan. 4, 2006, 9:53 pm

Greetings all!

I'm relatively new here, and not sure if this question qualifies for this forum, but I'll ask anyhow.

Have you ever noticed on some websites how they have their logo in the address bar?; normally takes the place of the IE logo (if you use IE browswer). I'm curious how this is placed there as I'd like to do it for my site. Kind of a meaningless little thing to want to add, but...

Thanks in advance for any and all responses!

Vince Crabb
GSUMC webmaster
www.gsumcindy.org (http://www.gsumcindy.org)

chrisb_ebc

Wed., Jan. 4, 2006, 9:59 pm

Hey Vince.
This link should work. Tells you how to create those little guys called Favicon's :) Hope this helps:

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/favicon.shtml

Oh.... and welcome. Glad to have you!

doctorknobs

Wed., Jan. 4, 2006, 10:42 pm

Thanks Chris!

I guess I'm not the only one who stays up late at night cruising the forums... :)

chrisb_ebc

Wed., Jan. 4, 2006, 11:03 pm

Ha! Yeah I am a night owl! Seems that I haven't been going to bed till around 3 AM every morning the past couple of weeks. Our church has a school. And I have been revamping the school website over the past two weeks after work! Lots of work. And now I am working on our youth group site. So I get over here every so often. :)

flutem3

Wed., Jan. 4, 2006, 11:23 pm

Yahoo! I am a night owl as well. I tried to figure out how to do the favicons you were talking about, but I didn't get it to work. I will try again tomorrow when I haven't been at the computer so long. However, I did get their site logo to work on our site. :)

Welcome to Vince from Indianapolis!!! I am from Wabash. We have some gooooooood people here. Stick around. :D

Carol

doctorknobs

Thu., Jan. 5, 2006, 9:09 am

Thank you Chris and Carol, for welcoming me to this site. I've discovered quite a bit of useful info here so far, and I expect I'll continue to do so.

I too tried the favicon thing last night, but it was soooo late and I was soooo tired that I didn't quite get it. So, I'm trying again today. I think I'll get it this time. :)

doctorknobs

Thu., Jan. 5, 2006, 11:14 am

Here I am again...

Downloaded the software PixelToolBox and got my "favicon" created and uploaded to my site, but no matter how I set up the reference to it, it just doesn't appear. And I thought I was pretty smart when it came to html, but I guess not! :D

If anyone knows how to get this set up properly, please let me know. And no hurry on it; I just think it'd be neat to have this feature eventually.

Thanks!

doctorknobs

Thu., Jan. 5, 2006, 12:25 pm

Ignore last post...for whatever reason it didn't want to immediately show up...I logged off for about an hour, and now the little icon is there! Cool!:) :D :)

flutem3

Thu., Jan. 5, 2006, 12:37 pm

Ignore last post...for whatever reason it didn't want to immediately show up...I logged off for about an hour, and now the little icon is there! Cool!:) :D :)

Hi,

Where did you place the icon? I would like to see what you did. I don't know whether I have use for something like that or not...especially when I am not too certain what you are talking about. :confused:

Are you a real life doctor? And if you are, what kind? :)

Carol

doctorknobs

Thu., Jan. 5, 2006, 6:55 pm

Hi Carol!

Depending on what browser you use, you should see something other than the lowercase "e" (denoting Internet Explorer) in the address bar, to the left of the URL of the site you're visiting. The icon I uploaded to my site is the United Methodist symbol, and it shows up in my browser of choice (Avantbrowser) and also in Mozilla (firefox), but for whatever reason it doesn't in IE...guess I'll blame Bill Gates for that one.

And no, I'm not a real doctor, I just play one on Sundays. "doctorknobs" is actually a nickname I picked up a few years ago; I guess it has something to do with my talent using an audio mixing console (I also run the sound and video system at my church). Sorry to disappoint you! :rolleyes:

flutem3

Thu., Jan. 5, 2006, 10:43 pm

Ah ha!!! I found it, Vince. It took me ten hours :D but I found it. It is a tiny thing, isn't it? But it is very nice. I don't think I am going to mess with it. I almost didn't see it at all. I checked it out on Firefox.

I still have no idea how people get the "tickers" with information to run across the bottoms of their websites, do you? I am not sure I want to do that either, but I would like to know how to do it.

For anyone who has been following the saga of Pastor Alex from the Philippines you will be pleased to note that he has the outline of his website, Learning Station, up and running. The URL is:

www.alsnet.org (http://www.alsnet.org/)

I suppose I should have put this on the roundtable.

Take care all.

Carol

rePete

Fri., Jan. 6, 2006, 8:53 am

Carol,

The ticker is generally considered a nuisance item on a webpage. Have you noticed you don't see many of them any more? I think it falls into the category of 'doing it because you can', not because it adds anything. If the information in the ticker is important, place it in an article and let me read it at my own speed. If it's not that important don't put it on a page. Content is key.

Pete

flutem3

Fri., Jan. 6, 2006, 12:03 pm

Hi, Pete,

I am certain you are correct. I wasn't necessarily going to use it. I was just very curious about how it is done. I cannot even begin to imagine how to do such a thing. :)

Are you related to Terry Hanratty?

Carol

JackWolfgang

Sat., Jan. 7, 2006, 11:01 pm

flutem3

Sat., Jan. 7, 2006, 11:21 pm

chrisb_ebc

Mon., Jan. 9, 2006, 1:25 am

You'll want to paste that code inbetween the <head> and </head> tags at the top of each page.

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="URL for image file" />

and it should look like this.

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/images/favicon.ico" /> What is Bold you will want to change to where ever your image is.

JackWolfgang

Mon., Jan. 9, 2006, 10:08 am

I am afraid I am terrifically obtuse about this kind of thing. I can insert html in my WYSIWYG program. However, I don't know where to put it. And how is the correct type defined?

Suggestions please.

Carol

Sorry I wasn't clear. As you can see that was posted late. Also, if your using HTML 4 as opposed to XHTML, you need to drop the slash.

You can use different types of images, but you have to change the type attribute of the link tag:

image/png Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
image/GIF Graphics Interchange Format
image/x-icon Icon File

There is a WikiPedia acticle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicons) on FavIcons.

flutem3

Mon., Jan. 9, 2006, 12:55 pm

Jack wrote:

"There is a WikiPedia acticle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicons) on FavIcons."

Thank you, Jack. I think I will read the article on Favicons. That way I can start at the beginning and not be guessing about the information.

Thanks again.

Carol

I just took a quick look at the article. Looks fascinating!