I just figured out how to do this so now I'm doing it for all the sites I run/edit/host

For those who don't know, this basically refers to the small (16x16 pixel) icon that you upload to your webserver and it gets displayed on the link/address bar of your browser...kind of like the small wolf icon to the immediate left of the "http://..." in TWW's address (http://www.thewolfweb.com/favicon.ico)

you can create a 16x16 icon and upload it to your root directory, and just add a little *link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"* (replace asterisks with less than / greater than signs) to your page's header

4/21/2008 12:39:43 PM

[new]

4/21/2008 1:06:36 PM

before creating the thread, maybe i shouldve searched for the topic since the search function works so well

4/21/2008 1:14:06 PM

lolol


welcome to HTML, brother.

4/21/2008 1:15:05 PM

is this one of the most common tags or something?

4/21/2008 1:18:51 PM

im pretty sure it's been around since IE5

4/21/2008 1:23:44 PM

yeah i think IE5 was the first to support but I had to mess around a bit with the coding to get it to show up in both IE and FF

oh well i thought it was cool

4/21/2008 1:26:09 PM

[new] not because a thread has been made but because you could have posted omg you can use h1 to make huge bold headers! and we would have been equally impressed with this [new] concept.

4/21/2008 1:28:52 PM

then all the cool nerds could come in here and roll their eyes at me since they're so cool and so much better than everyone else

4/21/2008 1:30:07 PM

no worries



it is a feature that some sites don't implement.

4/21/2008 1:31:11 PM

Quote :

"not because a thread has been made but because you could have posted omg you can use h1 to make huge bold headers! "

4/21/2008 1:36:45 PM

headers showed up in internet explorer 3.0 and old versions of netscape

like back when i actually learned html

favicons didnt, but thanks for the half assed analogy gloveco

remind me again wtf the point of tech talk is? to be a dickhead to somebody that knows less than you?

4/21/2008 1:43:13 PM

It's not that they think they more than you.

It's that a rabbit could figure out how to make a favicon if it wanted to. Did you really think you were telling people something they didn't know?

Had you never noticed the favicon on all other sites and not wondered how it was done, only to then google it and see how easy it is? Because everyone else who cared has already done this.

[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 1:46 PM. Reason : ]

4/21/2008 1:45:42 PM

shit just got real

4/21/2008 1:46:17 PM

so maybe you can tell me, whats the point of tech talk? cause there are a lot more basic/dumb things that get asked about in tech talk than an html feature thats only been around a few years

when somebody a lot less technically savvy than me asks a question about how to get a printer working or install a router, do yall just make fun of them and tell them how dumb they are?

4/21/2008 1:48:03 PM

Quote :

"when somebody a lot less technically savvy than me asks a question about how to get a printer working or install a router, do yall just make fun of them and tell them how dumb they are? "

haha pretty much

or just post a link to google

and if they're female, there'll probably be some sexist remarks thrown in

4/21/2008 1:49:16 PM

people asking dumb questions? ok

people giving dumb tutorials? wtf

4/21/2008 1:52:39 PM

forgive me for learning something technology related and sharing with other people in tech talk

how fucking dare i

4/21/2008 1:53:31 PM

calm down man, it's not that big a deal. accept your flaming and move on

4/21/2008 1:54:20 PM

the most important thing i learned is that tech talk is a place for nerds to come and tell other people that they dont know shit

i didnt realize that until now, but now i know

4/21/2008 1:56:17 PM

if you have something interesting or insightful to share, your thread will be well appreciated.

you tried to teach us about favicon.

4/21/2008 1:57:16 PM

Parody thread inc?

4/21/2008 1:59:16 PM

Quote :

"headers showed up in internet explorer 3.0 and old versions of netscape like back when i actually learned html favicons didnt, but thanks for the half assed analogy gloveco remind me again wtf the point of tech talk is? to be a dickhead to somebody that knows less than you?"

obviously you didn't learn html. you just learned how to write some plain text to the browser and were thrilled with yourself. If you had 'learned' html, you'd still be learning as [new] things such as favicon get implemented. Now if you had learned something more useful, such as "omg i just figured out how to get other elements on a page to appear above flash in all browsers" we'd be more impressed.

Quote :

"when somebody a lot less technically savvy than me asks a question about how to get a printer working or install a router, do yall just make fun of them and tell them how dumb they are?"

talk about piss poor analogies. If someone comes in here asking how to do something thats different than some dumbass pot head coming in here saying

"omg i installed a printer by myself...this model has only been around a few years so i didn't know how easy it was because back when i installed my first printer, driver CD's hadn't been implemented yet!"



[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 2:31 PM. Reason : a,]

4/21/2008 2:26:33 PM

Just shut the fuck up already.

4/21/2008 2:36:03 PM

take this other dumbass' advice, treetwister. ^

4/21/2008 2:38:08 PM

iamges.google.com

yes the typo is correct

i bet if you bought this domain you would get lots and lots of hits

or maybe gogole.com?

i remember linux bought the domain 'microsfot.com' which seems pretty clever

any other similiar circumstances you guys know of?

4/21/2008 2:40:21 PM

^do you see the same thread we see?

4/21/2008 2:42:22 PM

he forgot the quote tags for that

4/21/2008 2:43:58 PM

sober46an3 beat me to it.

4/21/2008 2:48:58 PM

a) favicon's have been around since IE5 (circa 2000)
b) how are you associated with web development and not noticed this feature yet?
(it's been around for 8 years)
c) yes, TWW's search is broken, has been for years, thank God there's Google

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp://www.thewolfweb.com

4/21/2008 2:52:54 PM

tech talk is a place for nerds to come and tell other people that they dont know shit

4/21/2008 3:28:04 PM

iamges.google.com

4/21/2008 4:00:50 PM

even tww uses this...that means it's old code

4/21/2008 4:06:11 PM

haha, i read it this way...

Quote :

"tech talk is a place for nerds to come and tell other people that they (themselves) don't know shit"

4/21/2008 4:07:27 PM

speaking of the aforementioned, why doesnt one of you brainiacs tell me why google hasnt setup a redirect where iamges.google.com automatically goes to images.google.com? any of you nerds figured that out in your spare time out of making fun of people who dont know as much as you?

4/21/2008 4:17:35 PM

i bet if you bought iamges.google.com you would get lots and lots of hits

4/21/2008 4:18:42 PM

i guess only the biggest nerds still find that thread funny

4/21/2008 4:20:30 PM

NERDS

4/21/2008 4:21:15 PM

i am definately a nerd

4/21/2008 4:21:34 PM

i just wonder how some of you act in real life when somebody asks you a question about computers...if you're a complete asshole to them like you are on tww, or if you actually take into consideration that everyone doesnt have the same expertise as you do...

4/21/2008 4:23:34 PM

how did you make that font big and bold like that?

4/21/2008 4:24:14 PM

i did our favicon when i did our company website at http://www.martininnovations.com

[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 4:25 PM. Reason : .]

4/21/2008 4:24:33 PM

Think of it this way treetwista: if someone came up to you and said, "Hey man! I just found about this new thing called a joint. A joint is created by rolling up cannabis, either manually or with a rolling machine into a cigarette-like product. Standard sized papers for joints are 70mm (standard size), 79mm (1 & 1/4 size) , and 110mm (1 & 1/2 size)!"

How would you react?

4/21/2008 4:30:45 PM

i still think yall are off on your analogies

rolling a joint = boldface, underline, italics, heading1, a href, img src, font, etc

favicon = maybe a gravity bong

[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 4:40 PM. Reason : .]

4/21/2008 4:38:01 PM

thats probably because you think favicon is ground breaking news.

4/21/2008 4:40:31 PM

i never even implied that but ok

4/21/2008 4:41:28 PM

Quote :

"rolling a joint = boldface, underline, italics, heading1, a href, img src, font, etc favicon = maybe a gravity bong"

ha, that makes sense.

I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm just kindly pointing out how silly this thread is. No harm intended.

Golovko is just being a flaming douchebag. He makes shitty flash sites, though, so I guess that gives him the right.

4/21/2008 4:43:27 PM

^^

Quote :

"I just figured out how to do this"

Quote :

"For those who don't know"

Phrases like these scream otherwise.

Dude, you posted something from the html for dummies handbook, acted like it was something that everyone would be interested in, and then got pissy when people called you out on it.

Man up, move on, and if it bothers you so much, stop making threads in TT.

It's not the end of the world.

4/21/2008 4:45:09 PM

Quote :

"Phrases like these scream otherwise."

what is that supposed to mean? i did just figure out how to do this, and contrary to all you genius nerds' perspectives, there are in fact people who dont know everything like you guys, where i felt the need to put the "for those who don't know" qualifier

4/21/2008 4:47:07 PM

set em up

4/21/2008 4:48:44 PM