topic Re: Company Logo in Archive

Company Logo

Eos — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:43:01 GMT

I notice that when you visit any of the major company websites a company logo is displayed next to the URL at the top of the page, this logo also appears in favorites if you bookmark that site.

When I visit my website the logo appears as the default internet explorer logo on a blank page.

Does anyone know if I can upload my own logo to my website built using Easysitewizard Pro?

Thank you.

Re: Company Logo

duskjome — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:10:38 GMT

I always wanted one of those:) After a bit of playing around I found out that the icon is cached somehow in my browser and I had to restart to get it to show up, standard ctrl+f5 option was not clearing it. So fair warning, that might happen. So all you need to do, in theory, in upload the image you want into your public directory, file manager should be fine to do this, and rename it "favicon.ico", I think that will be all you need, if you find it's still not working add <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> under the html tag in your index file, but that shouldn't be necessary.

And after you get the picture in and uploaded and it still doesn't show up try a manual cache and cookies clear or a computer restart, and don't just assume you've done something wrong like I did and screw with it for five or ten minutes.

Re: Company Logo

Eos — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:28:52 GMT

Thanks for your reply duskjome,

I'm not sure how to upload the image into my public directory in Easysitewizard Pro.

I can upload images to drag and drop, but it then becomes favicon.ico.gif and I can't rename it.

Any other ideas?

Re: Company Logo

duskjome — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:01:27 GMT

To upload the image itself try using the file manager tool, outside of easy site wizard, just double click the public directory and click browse, find the file you want to upload and hit open and then upload and it will upload the file for you.

Re: Company Logo

Eos — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:22:54 GMT

OK, done that,

It now says at the bottom 'favicon.ico.gif successfully uploaded'

I guess I need to rename it now?

Re: Company Logo

dave — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:32:25 GMT

you need to rename it favicon.ico

it also need to be the correct size to work. You can create them at http://www.favicon.cc/

Re: Company Logo

Eos — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:59:29 GMT

Thanks Dave,

That's a good site!

I've created an icon and uploaded it successfully and it now says favicon.ico successfully uploaded.

Is that it? I guess I need to re-publish my site now for it to work?

Thank you.

Re: Company Logo

Eos — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:18:24 GMT

Spot on,

I can't believe it was that easy!

Thanks for all your help.