website icon

[rock]

I'm not even sure what to call this thing. You know that little icon associated with particular websites that show up in Firefox (and Opera too IIRC)? For example, here at Sharkeyforums running vBulletin, it's the yellow box with a blue check mark in it. At www.somethingawful.com it's a little grenade.

How and where is this information set? With our new forums, it'd be nice to get rid of the overdone vBulleting icon and replace it with something aligned with the company.

[I4one]

It's called a Favicon.ico file (and I can't stand them) - the website in question parses your browser somehow- perhaps the _blank target exploit or script to ask your browser to d/l the ico file. Usually stored in the TIF folder for IE, and Cache for FF/Moz. Basically it's a page hit counter for the sites, and they know if you've "bookmarked / Fav" their site.

Naturally Moz/FF has a setting to turn this off - but AFAIK, IE doesn't, and likely never will

*edit;
oh I see - you want to change your Company's favicon.ico file (graphic) when others visit your site ...hehehe - yeah just google for favicon.ico -- I'm laughing b/c I recall years ago how frustrated I was trying to get rid of them (keep them from occuring) - and e-v-e-r-y- hit returned was how to make, save, serve these little maggots - nothing about killing them..
Turns out - a very small Regedit will fix it's @$$ for good :) (only necessary for IE)

[rock]

Thanks I4one. Maybe I should just start PMing you when I have questions instead of posting :D

And so it is used in IE too, but only in the Favorites menu. Shows you how often I use IE nowadays ;) And the 'counting bookmarks' side effect is no longer valid since Mozilla/FF downloads the icon on every visit.

BTW -- this works. I grabbed favicon.ico from the root of the company website and uploaded to the forum domain, and it's there. So there's one more floating around for you to block now :p

[I4one]

LOL....
anyway, as long as it's not like the detrimental ua549 HTML javascript code experiments ;) ...no problem sharing the info with the forum (PMing wouldn't acheive that) , and there are worse things to block

maybe if they were only used to serve the purpose of making browsing and sorting easier, and every site that I bookmarked used them, maybe it wouldn't be such an issue for me - but you and I both know - the world don't work that way...
*cough* obfuscation-exploit */cough...and no, I don't have a cold ;)

BTW - I know you're like a javascript, java, .NET coding guru - and thought you'd know all about these things ...(PM if necessary - just curious ;) )

[MrDigital]

I posted this link a couple of days ago for someone else, it's pretty helpful: http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/

Let's you make a favicon from a regular image. Worked well for me.

-MrD

[rock]

It's tough to make a 32x32 icon look like anything; I'm impressed with what people have been able to create. It's cool tools like that are available so us non-artists have a shot.