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    How to get an icon in IE/FF address bar

    OK, I know the theory - make a 16x16 file in the root of your site called favicon.ico
    I've downloaded a gif off the net, used a shareware icon program to resize it to 16x16, renamed it and uploaded it to my website, but I still get nothing. Any ideas why it might not work?
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    #2
    Put this:

    <link rel="Shortcut Icon" href="/images/favicon.ico">

    Inbetween your <HEAD> tags

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      #3
      Shouldn't have to (or so I've read) but I've tried that too - still no luck...

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        #4
        As far as I know browsers do need to be told the location of the favicon, maybe newer browsers make a guess if they can't find this code. Sometimes they have problems loading, try using that code I gave you inbetween your HEAD tags and clearing your cache then trying again, it definitely works!

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          #5
          my googling told me that putting favicon in the root of the site will work without telling the browser anything...
          Anyway, I've pasted that in just above </head> and put my favicon.ico in /images and still nothing. Could my web host not support it?

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            #6
            Post links plz!

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              #7
              www.fsjh.co.uk - don't laugh!

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                #8
                I love the orbitting shuttlecock!!

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                  #9
                  You are using Frames! The cardinal sin of web development!

                  Still no matter, place the link to the favicon in the HEAD tags of this section instead:


                  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
                  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
                  <head>
                  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
                  <title>FSJH Badminton Club Homepage</title>
                  </head>

                  <frameset rows="*,133" cols="*" framespacing="0" frameborder="yes" border="0" bordercolor="#000000">
                  <frame src="frontpage.html" name="mainFrame" frameborder="yes" scrolling="auto" noresize="noresize" bordercolor="#000000" id="mainFrame" title="Main Page" />
                  <frame src="news.html" name="bottomFrame" frameborder="yes" scrolling="yes" noresize="noresize" bordercolor="#000000" id="bottomFrame" title="News" />
                  </frameset>
                  <noframes><body>
                  </body>
                  </noframes></html>

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                    #10
                    Sorry! What should I use instead of frames? I know nothing about web design, it's just that someone had to do or it the club would be going downhill...
                    Just tried it and it's worked - you're a star, thanks!

                    And Ish - that was one I hit, took some effort to get it up there and some expense to get a camera man there too, but it was worth it!

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                      #11
                      Instead of frames, use DIVs and stylesheets.
                      Lie with passion and be forever damned...

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