Why won't favicon work???

[neptunestore]

It just simply doesn't make sense, for this line of code, to do nothing on my site

<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/mm5/favicon.ico">

http://www.neptunediving-ski.com

I'm new to miva merchant, so maybe there is something special I don't know.

[d_host]

Re: Why won't favicon work???

Seems to be loading OK in Safari and Firefox (Mac OS X). Perhaps you are using web browser which doesn't support the format of the .ico file you created? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon for compatibility matrix.

[jsdva]

Re: Why won't favicon work???

It just simply doesn't make sense, for this line of code, to do nothing on my site

<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/mm5/favicon.ico">

http://www.neptunediving-ski.com

I'm new to miva merchant, so maybe there is something special I don't know.

Try putting your images into the root folder. They don't work when they are in a sub folder. Then link as below:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

That will make it work in IE, as well as Safari and Firefox.

[jsdva]

Re: Why won't favicon work???

Was thinking about this, and since you are apparently trying to get it to work within the Miva pages, change that link to:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="../favicon.ico">

But, make sure the favicon is in the root directory, not in the Miva folder. Firefox accepts the favicon being outside the root, but IE doesn't. If you were to want that favicon on a page that does not reside in the Miva folder, then you would use the href="favicon.ico"

[kayakbabe]

Re: Why won't favicon work???

It makes perfect sense for it not to work.

It has to go in your website root folder only, not in a subfolder.
It will not work in a subfolder for many browsers.

Your website root is where
http://mydomain.com/
pulls files from on your physical server.
It can't be in a sub folder.

If you put it there, ALL the browsers will always find it.

The full and proper syntax is
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
though
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" >
has always worked for me too.


Also make sure your .ico file is 32x32 pixels.. you can include other sizes within the .ico so that book marks will look nice at different resolutions. But you MUST have the 32x32 for the browser bar. if you don't, it will now show up, or will look really icky. Also you aren't just renaming some other graphic type to .ico from it's native format. That won't work. It has to be a .ico file.