Use favicons to make your site stand out from the crowd. - eShop Forums - eCommerce Help Forum for Shopping Cart Owners.

Lawrence · #1 (**permalink**) 27-08-2007, 02:24 PM

I'm sure you've all seen them before, you know those little icons next to the URL in your title bar or on your favourites list?

This is how you make one.

Create a 16 X 16px gif to your own design, then save it as favicon.ico. You have to make sure it is a proper ,ico file and not just another image format with a .ico extension. If your S/W can't do this you can convert it on www.favicon.co.uk. You then upload it to the root of your website. Most browsers will pick it up automatically but just to be on the safe side stick this line between the <head> tags on your homepage.

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

If you don't see immediate results on your browser (IE is particularly bad for this) then you may need to clear out your internet cache.

Tinkerbell · #2 (**permalink**) 27-08-2007, 03:15 PM

There are some good free resources out there also , where you upload your logo and it resizes it for you!
The thing I like about these little things is when someone is looking at theit favourites and have a long long list they can pick out your image much quicker than reading the url!
Just type in free favicon generator into google and there are hundreds of sites to choose from

Just4Girlz · #3 (**permalink**) 29-08-2007, 06:27 AM

hi guys, nice to see some old (not literally) faces here,
I've been struggling with a favicon for ages now so i'm gonna try L's method above

Gareth

Lawrence · #4 (**permalink**) 29-08-2007, 06:37 AM

Hi J4Gs

I haven't seen you about in a while.

If you find that it won't change on IE then you may need to clear your temp internet files as IE can be quite stubborn by sticking to the favicon that was displayed previously. If you're having this problem tell us and one of us will check it on a browser that hasn't visited your site before to let you if it's working or not.

Just4Girlz · #5 (**permalink**) 29-08-2007, 07:10 AM

Thanks Lawrence I'll do that.

So where'd this site come from? Your baby? Great idea!!!

Lawrence · #6 (**permalink**) 29-08-2007, 07:26 AM

Yep, it's my baby.

I figured it was better to use a forum than to keep answering the same questions over an over again by email, this way I can just point people to the relevant post when asked again. I also noticed a gap in the forums that are available. There are some that are S/W specific e.g. Zen, OSC etc and there are others that are business orientated that touch on some of the technical aspects of eCommerce but there doesn't seem to be a lot that are specifically for ecommerce site owners which cover both the business and technical aspects of running your own store. Hopefully I've filled that gap.

Just4Girlz · #7 (**permalink**) 29-08-2007, 07:36 AM

well i think it's a great idea.
Like i've said in one of the other posts i've been learning to write HTML and the like and just getting into CSS on our new site (just4let) which is not an ecommerce site but i'm sure I can still get lots of help here if required.

Well done you!

Lawrence · #8 (**permalink**) 29-08-2007, 09:57 AM

CSS is great when you get your head around the basic concept of it and it's the way forward, it's biggest problem at the moment is cross browser compatibility. A page may look fine on IE but a total mess when viewed on Firefox. It's usually down to IE not conforming to the standards. You're probably spend more time trying to get it to look the same in both browsers than you do writing the initial code in the first place.

Hopefully they will sort this out with the next generation of browsers.

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