Where to put "favicon" code?

[Bruce]

Simple question (though not for me)....

To make my gallery match the website and forum I also host ... I want to use the same favicon. Problem is I don't know where to include the 1 line snippet of html code to do so - code being <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://xxx.net/xxxx/sunicon.gif">


Anyone have an idea where it would be inserted?

[Joachim Müller]

http://yoursite.tld/your_coppermine_folder/themes/yourtheme/template.html

sunicon.gif

Not a valid favicon. Read http://favicon.com/#12

[Bruce]

http://yoursite.tld/your_coppermine_folder/themes/yourtheme/template.html
Not a valid favicon. Read http://favicon.com/#12

Works fine on the website and forum!
That server link is "not found", btw...

[Joachim Müller]

Works fine on the website and forum!

Works fine for you maybe. Might not work for others. Other browsers and operating systems might be pickier. But anyway, it's your choice to leave it in the wrong way. I just wanted to be nice and inform you that you shouldn't use GIFs as favicons.

That server link is "not found", btw...

That's a sample URL, as I don't know your real URL out of the back of my head. Just clicking blindly on the link of course won't work. Replace yoursite.tld with your domain, your_coppermine_folder with the folder where you actually have installed coppermine in and yourtheme with the actual theme name you're using .

[Bruce]

Works fine for you maybe. Might not work for others. Other browsers and operating systems might be pickier. But anyway, it's your choice to leave it in the wrong way. I just wanted to be nice and inform you that you shouldn't use GIFs as favicons.

Okay. All I know is everyone I ask who uses FF, Opera, or IE gets it okay. For sure that link that asks $150 to make a favico is a joke.

That's a sample URL, as I don't know your real URL out of the back of my head. Just clicking blindly on the link of course won't work. Replace yoursite.tld with your domain, your_coppermine_folder with the folder where you actually have installed coppermine in and yourtheme with the actual theme name you're using .

My mistake for thinking you were directing me someplace that would inform me of something. I guess you are saying there should be something in my template that does this ... assuming I was using a proper favicon?

[Joachim Müller]

Okay. All I know is everyone I ask who uses FF, Opera, or IE gets it okay. For sure that link that asks $150 to make a favico is a joke.

The link I posted should just tell you what a favicon is. Create your own for free, using IconEdit32 or similar.

My mistake for thinking you were directing me someplace that would inform me of something. I guess you are saying there should be something in my template that does this ... assuming I was using a proper favicon?

Edit your template file (as suggested above: I can't tell you the full path in a fool-proof way, as you haven't posted a link to your site. It should be a file named "template.html") and just insert the code line you already posted in your first posting

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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://xxx.net/xxxx/sunicon.gif"> into a new line before

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</head>.
Just for clarification: don't take your own code literally - you'll have to replace all those Xs with some actual content that fits the location of the GIF file on your site that you mistake for an icon.

This is the last thread I have tried to help you - I'm fed up with you being confrontational even though I take the time to help. At the very time I'm posting I already know that you're never going to say "thank you", but only "f... you". *sigh*
From now on, I'll ignore you.

[Bruce]

The link I posted should just tell you what a favicon is. Create your own for free, using IconEdit32 or similar.
Edit your template file (as suggested above: I can't tell you the full path in a fool-proof way, as you haven't posted a link to your site. It should be a file named "template.html") and just insert the code line you already posted in your first posting

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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://xxx.net/xxxx/sunicon.gif"> into a new line before

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</head>.
Just for clarification: don't take your own code literally - you'll have to replace all those Xs with some actual content that fits the location of the GIF file on your site that you mistake for an icon.

This is the last thread I have tried to help you - I'm fed up with you being confrontational even though I take the time to help. At the very time I'm posting I already know that you're never going to say "thank you", but only "f... you". *sigh*
From now on, I'll ignore you.

Well - it's a shame you will probably ignore this, because you would be wrong. In every thread where I have asked for help I have said repeatedly Thank you for the help. To you and others.

I don't know where you get the idea I am being confrontational. Far from it. I was simply replying to your answer in plain English. The site you pointed me to on favicons quoted $150 for them to create a favicon for someone. I saw no mention of what a favicon really was that is so different from a normal gif. I think many would agree that there was really nothing particularly helpful there that would explain why my gif would not work. If you had simply provided the newest link to IconEdit, that would have been more helpful, don't you think?

The other link you provided was done as though it was a link to another thread - like most replies of help do. Perhaps simply saying what you said above instead of using a link to nothing would have been better? Or is that being confrontational, too?

Finally (yes, finally) ... I strenuously take offense to your suggestion I would say "F+++ You" instead of thanking you - or anyone - for help. I have done nothing in this forum to remotely suggest that is the way I conduct myself. However, if you choose to believe that, there is nothing I can say to disabuse you of that. Suffice it to say, you are wrong, and in this example it is intended to be confrontational. With good reason, imo. None of the other developers who have offered me help have hinted that they are in any way offended by my responses to them. Why you do is anathema to me.

Feel free to ignore any further comments or requests I might make in this forum ... although I doubt I will be of mind to put myself in a position to be browbeat by you.

Thank you for better explaining your point.

[Bruce]

Oh by the way ... IconEdit32 is not free - it is $7.97 to download.

[Joachim Müller]

http://www.onlythebestfreeware.com/program.asp?program_id=135