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Author Topic: A quick question for all you web designers Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-05-2010 09:38 PM                        Hey, how do I add that little icon to a website that shows up next to the URL on the address bar?  |  IP: Logged Robert Minichino Master Film Handler Posts: 350 From: Haskell, NJ, USA Registered: Dec 2005 posted 02-05-2010 09:57 PM                        You add an icon file called favicon.ico to the top level directory of your web site (so you fetch it with http://mysite.com/favicon.ico). Alternatively, you can put a link tag in your page of the format "less-than link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="http://mysite.com/myicon.gif" /greater-than". Wikipedia has more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-05-2010 11:53 PM                        See Film-Tech's favicon? That's as big as you can get. You don't have a lot of space, so use it wisely.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-06-2010 12:05 AM                     Favicons suck. Just my opinion. They need more pixels.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-06-2010 12:08 AM                        Yeah, so nobody should use them at all because there are not enough pixels.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-06-2010 12:11 AM                     Place a 16 X 16 pixel image (GIF or PNG) at the top level of your site. For instance, name it, "favicon.png" Then use the following in the head of any html page that wants to use it. <línk rel="icon" href="favicon.png" type="image/png"> etc...  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-06-2010 12:39 AM                     quote: Joe Redifer Yeah, so nobody should use them at all because there are not enough pixels. Absolutely. 'Cuz when you're working on a 15.4" notebook screen with 1920 X 1200 resolution (thanks Sean Weitzel) the favicons can get damned tiny. Make 'em 32 X 32 or 64 X 64! They might look bigger if I dragged them to my Sony Bravia XBR4 52" HDTV set, but -sniff- I don't have that anymore. Yeah. Quick check. Yep, got the Sig Sauer P226 "hot" and hoping those bastards come back looking to get more "loot."  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-06-2010 12:20 PM                        They are 16x16 for the same reason Film-Tech photos are still limited to 550 pixels wide and the pictures gallery is limited to 625 pixels wide. People have low resolution screens. Or at least they did in 1999 when we decided on those dimensions (logic being that people who had resolutions of 640x480 could still view the entire image, the navigation frame was at the bottom during that time). I have pushed to allow larger dimensions here, but I guess most Film-Techers are still stuck in 1999 and 1024x768.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-06-2010 12:45 PM                     The problem is if we allow wider images on the forum, it forces horizontal scrolling for anyone without a high enough resolution monitor. We are considering upping the resolution of the warehouse.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-06-2010 03:56 PM                        You could also allow a special tag to automatically resize forum pictures. It won't speed up the loading, but it will prevent the scrolling. When a user clicks on the picture, the full size image appears. I do this at Magicbox, it is really easy to do in HTML. If the forum can run simple HTML codes behind the scenes (which it can because I can bold my text), then it is possible to do this, embed Youtube videos or whatever you want! The problem would be the members remembering to use the [simg] tag instead of the normal [img] tag. A script would have to be written to where the forum sees an image larger than 550 pixels wide and it gives the [simg] tag instead when people upload.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-06-2010 05:15 PM                        Cool, I figured it was an easy trick. I just never knew the "favicon" name. Thanks all.  |  IP: Logged

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