Favorites icon

[hopper]

I'm trying to add a favicon to my site (I use Dreamweaver 4). I created my 16x16 pixel .ico image, aptly named favicon.ico and published it to the root directory on my server. When I add it to favorites (on many different computers), it does not show up. On my site map in DW, my .ico files show up with a text icon next to them.

I've done this before using FP2000 and had no problems. Macromedia's site provides no help. Any ideas? Thanks.

[UncleMacro]

my .ico files show up with a text icon next to them

I have no DreamWeaver experience but you need to make sure they are uploaded as a binary file.

There are only two things you need to get the favicon.ico to work: it's got to be a valid .ICO file, and it's got to be in the correct directory. You can make sure that the .ICO file on your website is valid by running this validator. You can check what directory it's supposed to be in by looking for favicon.ico in your access logs. The listing of the 404 errors will tell you what directory it's looking in. If you need to place the .ICO file somewhere other than the root then you can use a <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/wherever/favicon.ico"> in your head section on each page but I'm not sure that works for all browsers. Generally, people just put them in the site root directory.

[hopper]

Thanks much UncleMacro! The only thing wrong was my omission of the link code. I guess in the past, when I used FrontPage, the FP server extensions automatically puts in the code. I inserted the code and my favicon works. It was in the root directory all along, but doesn't show without the code.

Thanks again!