Re: favicon

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From: Steve Easton (admin_at_95isalive.com)
Date: 03/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:05:22 -0500

Go here: http://www.x2studios.com/index.php?page=products&id=11
and download the free utility LiquidIcon XP ( has nothing to do with windows
XP )
and use it to convert your ico file to a genuine icon. It also has the
ability to combine 16x16 and 32x32 icons
into one ico file. ( like most icons are )

Then place the favicon.ico you create with it in the root of your web. 

-- 
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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"jasonc" <AS-IF> wrote in message
news:O%23Ok1j1$DHA.2804@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> what on earth am i doing wrong, this is really getting silly now, am i a
> compleate idiot or what!!
>
> i have this image that i imported with the software and i then save this
to
> a file that has the ico  extention.
>
> i then copy this file to the root directory of the website
> and also add the following to the site htm code, <link rel="shortcut icon"
> href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
> i have also use this line too,  <link rel="shortcut icon"
> href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
> and <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
> and <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
> and <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/favicon.ico">
>
> i have used all sorts of combination.
>
> i have included the image that i need as the icon, and also the icon file
> that i am using that is in the root directory.
> please please please help me i can not take much more,  it can not
> possible be something i am doing wrong, what else can it be,
>
> the file is saved as a ico file, it is a 16x16  image that is saved in the
> ico file, when the file is saved to the desktop, i see the image as the
> files icon, i have been told that this is ok.
>
> i will end up giving up on this soon, how much more difficult can this be?
>
> sorry to go on and on, but if what you are saying is true (i don't doubt
> that) and i have followed every thing you have said why can i not get this
> to work right.
>
> i have now asked someone to send me there icon and i have used that to
test
> and it does not work
>
>
> thank you even more and hope that we can soon have this working.
>
>
>
> Jason
>
> "FrontpageForms" <Me@NoSpam> wrote in message
> news:44ff01c3ff4f$55820730$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > Jason,
> >
> > Take a look at this page at Tina's site.
> >
> >  http://accessfp.net/faviconico.htm
> >
> > BTW, great FP resource site.
> >
> > Mike,
> > http://FrontPag.Bizland.com
> > Form Tutorials & Form Script Examples
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >I have been emailing my servers and asking everyone else
> > I know about this
> > >
> > >I do not seem to be able to get this icon to work,  I
> > have been told that
> > >the icon is a HTML code !!!,  how can it be when it is
> > created by a icon
> > >maker!!!  anyway, after a few days of this I have now
> > given up and am now
> > >asking the newsgroup for some help.
> > >hopefully some out there can get this to work.
> > >
> > >
> > >the icon is called favicon.ico  all lower case as it
> > should be it is a ico
> > >file  it has the image I need,  when it is saved on my
> > desktop, the icon
> > >that shows above the file name 'favicon.ico'  is the icon
> > itself.  is this
> > >right?  it suggests that it is not a ico maybe, but in
> > fact a jpg or gif
> > >file?  I really do not know.
> > >
> > >does someone have such a file that I can use to test that
> > my server is
> > >accepting a icon file!!
> > >
> > >thanks
> > >
> > >Jason
> > >(using FrontPage 2002  with Windows XP,  server says that
> > they do support
> > >the ico file and that it should work)
> > >
> > >
> > >.
> > >
>
>
>

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