[solved] Favicon Problem

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Old Mar 9th, 2008, 16:51
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[solved] Favicon Problem

Hi, i dont know if this is in the right forum so please excuse me if it is,

I just want to ask how come my Favicon doesnt view in I.E but then i go to like this site for example and it shows all the time and i go to other sites and they show but mine never shows.

Only shows in FF

Please help
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Re: Favicon Problem

clear your i.e cashe and try again
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Re: Favicon Problem

Tried that mate doesnt work, also if i added this piece of code would it work

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<http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />

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Re: Favicon Problem

Have you got this in your <head>?
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<link rel="icon" href="http://yoursitename.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://yoursitename.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
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yes take a look www.qwhosting.co.uk
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Just out of interest, are you referring to IE7, IE6, >IE5.5 or all?
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I am Using IE7
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Re: Favicon Problem

check this out, may be of some help http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/validator/ , your icon was checked but was not found to be a valid favicon , dont know exacely what that means, maybe your code or the image itself

you could also check some of these out

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fav...ient=firefox-a
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Re: Favicon Problem

Cheers for that mate, what it was lol, my mate all he did was resize and save a .ico so what i did was used the favicon generator and now it works.

Cheers for the replys and help.

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