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Printed Date: 02 April 2026 at 7:07pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com

Topic: Favicon

Posted By: shame
Subject: Favicon
Date Posted: 19 March 2009 at 11:49pm

Hi,

I've replaced the Favicon with a custom one relevant to our forum, but it won't display. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks....

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 March 2009 at 7:49am

IE and some other browsers will cache the favicon. You just have to wait for your browsers cache to give up the old one before you see the new one.

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Posted By: shame
Date Posted: 17 April 2009 at 6:25am

It's been almost a month now and it still isn't showing. I've even manually deleted the cache. This is happening on every PC that accesses the Forum.

Any ideas?

Thanks....

Posted By: shame
Date Posted: 17 April 2009 at 6:38am

Ok, I just did a quick comaprison of the page source for this Forum and our Forum installation. This Forum has the <link> tags in the <head> block that you'd expect to see for a favicon (included below), yet ours doesn't. Any ideas on why this might be happening?

Link tags you'd expect to see:

<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

Thanks....

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 17 April 2009 at 8:04am

You do not need to have a link to the favicon file as your browser auto looks for it.

I do find though that some browsers, particularly IE onces they cache a favion they never update their cache. You may need to test in a difefrent browser you have never viewed the forum in.

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Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 17 April 2009 at 1:03pm

There are a few reasons why this could happen, but just to clarify -

Did you see the favicon when you first uploaded the forum?
Or now do you just see a blank like folder? beside the address?
Is your forum part of a site?

Also when you create a favicon you need to create it is an .ico file

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Posted By: billd3
Date Posted: 17 April 2009 at 7:49pm

AND it's not just the extension - you can't make it with some software. It's got to be a certain size, and format file.
Not just any image renamed *.ico will work in my experience.

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Posted By: Lynford
Date Posted: 18 April 2009 at 9:40pm

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/" rel="nofollow - If you need to make a Favicon.............

Posted By: shame
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 7:25am

WebWiz-Bruce wrote:

You do not need to have a link to the favicon file as your browser auto looks for it.

Only if it is in the root directory.... which in this case it is.

WebWiz-Bruce wrote:

I do find though that some browsers, particularly IE onces they cache a favion they never update their cache. You may need to test in a difefrent browser you have never viewed the forum in.

I've tried it to view it using IE6, IE7, Firefox and Chrome on both of my development machines, one of my developers has also tried it on his machine, we've tried it on 2 application testing machines (one we even re-imaged just to test the favicon!) and even on my home machine - none of them are showing it.

Posted By: shame
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 7:28am

MrTWS wrote:

There are a few reasons why this could happen, but just to clarify -

Did you see the favicon when you first uploaded the forum?
Or now do you just see a blank like folder? beside the address?

Just the standard IE favicon.

MrTWS wrote:

Is your forum part of a site?

Yes it is. The site itself displays the favicon, we've even tried using different icons to confirm that it isn't getting cached (updating the parent site's and the forums icons at the same time).

MrTWS wrote:

Also when you create a favicon you need to create it is an .ico file

Correct

Posted By: shame
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 7:31am

billd3 wrote:

AND it's not just the extension - you can't make it with some software. It's got to be a certain size, and format file.
Not just any image renamed *.ico will work in my experience.

Spot on and we've got all of these covered.

Posted By: shame
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 7:31am

Lynford wrote:

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/" rel="nofollow - If you need to make a Favicon.............

Thanks for the link, it may come in handy.

Posted By: shame
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 7:34am

This isn't a show-stopper, just one of those frustrating little issues you'd rather have working than not have working - especially when the MD wants to know why the applications logo isn't appearing as a favicon - he's sensitive about these things.

Thanks for the time invested so far, if you're able to figure out a solution i'd love to hear it. I'll see what else i can try in the meantime.

Cheers....

Posted By: Lynford
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 8:55am

No idea if this helps.......

Just checked - My .ico file is in my main site files for my site, but is also in my Forum folder so that it shows up in there as well.

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 27 April 2009 at 11:10am

A link to favicon from one of my sites, as it appears in all my files:

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.justcheck.co.uk/favicon.ico">

There is no reason why if you implement this coding, obviously changing your http address, that the file can possibly miss where the icon is

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Posted By: shame
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 1:56am

Lynford wrote:

No idea if this helps.......

Just checked - My .ico file is in my main site files for my site, but is also in my Forum folder so that it shows up in there as well.

Yep, I've done exactly the same.

Thanks.

Posted By: shame
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 1:59am

MrTWS wrote:

A link to favicon from one of my sites, as it appears in all my files:

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.justcheck.co.uk/favicon.ico">

There is no reason why if you implement this coding, obviously changing your http address, that the file can possibly miss where the icon is

Which of the forums .asp pages do you recmommned modifying?

Cheers....

Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 28 April 2009 at 6:20am

On the above site, I have the site, then the forum within the site, so all my pages that are site pages have that code line in them go to http://www.justcheck.co.uk" rel="nofollow - Just Check and do page view, or source view, and you will see what I mean

I have not modified any forum files, as my favicon appears in my root directory
Why not PM me and later on today I can take a look at this for you if you would like - send me your website address

MrTWS

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Posted By: shame
Date Posted: 29 April 2009 at 11:48pm

PM sent.

Thanks!