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**jrosworld.com** · 08-27-2008, 10:12 AM

I am attempting to implement a favicon into my website. I have put a 16x16px image in the root folder called favicon.ico, and put the code

<head>
<title>Jro's World</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.jrosworld.com/favicon.ico" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="masterss.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="external.js"></script>
</head>

in the header of the homepage. But the favicon is not appearing except in 2 pages of the website. I have a phpBB forum that opens up in a new window, & I have a Gallery photo album that opens up in a new window. The favicon appears on both of these pages. It also appears in FireFTP when I am uploading to the website. But as far as I can tell, it appears nowhere else. It doesn't appear on the homepage, or on any other of the main pages within the site.

Can anyone help? The most important place I want it to appear, is on the homepage.

Thanks to anyone with any input.

**aldor** · 08-27-2008, 01:15 PM

I have just checked both your forum and photo gallery and do not see your favicon on either of these pages.

Are you sure that you have specified the correct path to favicon.ico, where are you storing this.

**jrosworld.com** · 08-27-2008, 02:01 PM

Yes. I've double checked the path & everything is correct.

I have just looked at both the forum & the photos page, in both Mozilla & IE. It appears on both these pages on Mozilla, but doesn't seem to appear in IE at all on any page. Was that why you weren't seeing it?

Any other suggestions?

**jrosworld.com** · 08-27-2008, 02:54 PM

Since I posted that last post, for some reason (I've made no changes), the favicon has started working on every page in Mozilla. It is still not working on IE. I have no explanation for why.

**chrishirst** · 08-28-2008, 04:09 AM

In IE the favicon will only work (sometimes) after the page has been bookmarked (several times, deleted, rebookmarked, the cache cleared, bookmarked again and two chickens have been ritually sacrificed at dawn on the third Wednesday in April) THEN you may have a chance of it working (or not as the case may be)!

**chrishirst** · 08-28-2008, 04:10 AM

BTW
Slight exaggeration there ...

... It's just the ONE chicken!

**bakerc** · 10:18 PM

Try setting it out like this

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

instead of

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.jrosworld.com/favicon.ico" />

Just a note but the icon isn't in an images file is it?
href="/images/favicon.ico"

I am not sure if this will help but I have not had any problems setting it up this way.

**Gilligan** · 08-29-2008, 10:47 AM

Is it just me or does the favicon work on all pages in FF?

**propress** · 08-31-2008, 04:14 AM

But when i go to http://www.jrosworld.com/favicon.ico there is nothing there.
I think that's the problem.

**nelsonks** · 09-01-2008, 05:20 PM

I think you have something wrong with your favicon.ico, there are no file

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