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Hello,

I have always wondered about this. If you go to a Joomlart page, there is this micro-icon that precedes the URL that is similar to all Joomlart site. That is true also with the site of many major CMS, like Joomla, TikiWiiki, etc.

What script defines and makes this possible. I have a number of sites and I would be interested if they are identified by the icon of the “parent site”.

Thanks.

Cornelio

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#299394

Are you on abot the favicon?

If you look in each template for J1.5 you will see a file called favicon.ico, simply replace the image with one of your own.

Google favicon and you will see lots of info on this.

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#299403

<em>@phill luckhurst 121945 wrote:</em><blockquote>Are you on abot the favicon?

If you look in each template for J1.5 you will see a file called favicon.ico, simply replace the image with one of your own.

Google favicon and you will see lots of info on this.</blockquote>

Thanks phill luckhurst;

I found a favicon.ico? Is that the same one?

Now I know what it is called.:) Now, I can search more about it. I was trying to see if there was one in the index.php, Or how it might be called by a script.

Here’s a link about favicon from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of my favorite sources of general info — provided it is not anything controversial, i.e, not politics, history, religion, culture, etc.

This would be a useful FAQ for beginners. It seems very simple, but actually very important for site identity.

’tis better to look stupid sometimes than to remain ignorant, forever… — so the saying goes.

Phil (?), do you happen to use Teline II and the Hot Topic module?

Cornelio

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#299405

in joomla 1.5, your site favicon can be found in the the templates/_templatename_/
just replace the file favicon.ico with the favicon you have created.

there are various tools around to assist you with creation of favicon, the tool i used the most is:
http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/

it allows you to upload an image and crop a portion out to create your favicon. note that the cropping box is resizeable (i didn’t know it was at first and kept resizing/uploading my images so that the box could crop the required portion)

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#299406

another thing to note is that favicon is cached in browsers, so if you updated your favicon and it doesn’t change, try clearing your browser cache.

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#299409

<em>@cgc0202 121956 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks phill luckhurst;

Phil (?), do you happen to use Teline II and the Hot Topic module?

Cornelio</blockquote>

I have used it yes, problems?

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#299412

<em>@jsliao 121958 wrote:</em><blockquote>in joomla 1.5, your site favicon can be found in the the templates/_templatename_/
just replace the file favicon.ico with the favicon you have created.

there are various tools around to assist you with creation of favicon, the tool i used the most is:
http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/

it allows you to upload an image and crop a portion out to create your favicon. note that the cropping box is resizeable (i didn’t know it was at first and kept resizing/uploading my images so that the box could crop the required portion)</blockquote>

Thanks jsliao,

This is great. I have several (different) domain names but they have a common goal with a parent domain.

In Teline II, the favicon.ico is found in the main directory of the ja_teline_ii inside the templates

templates => a_teline_ii => favicon.ico

Is this the correct placement? I was trying to find this script in the header of the index.php in Teline II

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.yourwebsite.com/favicon.ico" />

but: it was not there. However, it was defined in the templateDetails.xml

templates => a_teline_ii => templateDetails.xml

<files>
<filename>favicon.ico</filename>
</files>


does the above in Teline II equivalent to what you stated:

<em>@jsliao 121958 wrote:</em><blockquote>in joomla 1.5, your site favicon can be found in the the templates/_templatename_/ </blockquote>

Cornelio

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#299415

The <file> attribute in templateDetails.xml is there to tell joomla when you are installing a template that it must extract that file. Doesn’t really do anything after that.

Most browsers will pick up the favicon whether you include <LINK REL=”SHORTCUT ICON” HREF=”http://www.yourwebsite.com/favicon.ico” /> or not.

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#299416

<em>@phill luckhurst 121962 wrote:</em><blockquote>I have used it yes, problems?</blockquote>

Yes! Hainn helped me quite a bit in resolving most of it last year, but there might have been a last step that did not allow me to create multiple Hot Topic modules where the width of the images would be different for the different modules.

I will resurrect the old post, to present this. I will provide the link here.

And of course, I posted one with my problems with the update, but “your favorite linguist friend” ruined it. with his irrelevant responses. Have you installed any Joomla 1.5.x-Teline II before the latest version (Teline II v 1.6). I will create a different thread on this too. I will provide the link here.

Please respond in the more focused links, for each.

Cornelio

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#299418

<em>@scotty 121970 wrote:</em><blockquote>The <file> attribute in templateDetails.xml is there to tell joomla when you are installing a template that it must extract that file. Doesn’t really do anything after that.

Most browsers will pick up the favicon whether you include <LINK REL=”SHORTCUT ICON” HREF=”http://www.yourwebsite.com/favicon.ico” /> or not.</blockquote>

yes scotty is right, favicon.ico is automatically retrieved by browsers. you do not have to indicate anything in your html/php codes.

unless you wish to use another file name, then you might have to do something to the code. but i have never explored that since placing favicon.ico does the trick, no point doing extra work just to have a special filename.

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#299426

<em>@scotty 121970 wrote:</em><blockquote>The <file> attribute in templateDetails.xml is there to tell joomla when you are installing a template that it must extract that file. Doesn’t really do anything after that.

Most browsers will pick up the favicon whether you include <LINK REL=”SHORTCUT ICON” HREF=”http://www.yourwebsite.com/favicon.ico” /> or not.</blockquote>

Thanks Scotty,

I plan to test it by just removing the favicon.ico found in the main directory of ja_teline_ii inside the templates directory.

Wow, so many great responses. Before I asked this, I did not even know what it was called.:)

It’s good I did not cower from being branded stupid. This is quite a new information for me. Now, I just have to see if I can persuade a friend who I have not seen for many years, if he could design a nice logo that will look good even when very small.

Some will be a challenge, like Bayanihan-Saranay*** => B.S*may be misconstrued to mean

“Bull Sh-t:”:)

Cornelio

N.B.

***Bayanihan is the equivalent of “collaboration” in Filipino (the lingua franca in the Philippines). It is not just collaboration but more a symbol of being one as a community

Saranay means Help in Ilocano (one of the major languages in the Philippines), but Saranay has a deeper meaning in Ilocano, more like helping someone with compassion and respect to those that you hold dear. In Asian culture, once you help someone, that person becomes your responsibility also, so they become part of your life.

So, Bayanihan – Saranay in a sense is much more meaningful to represent its counterpart in English Collaborative Support Group. — you collaborate acting as one, as a community and you do something not so much to gain from it, but more because it is part of your purpose or focus in life, and it is something that you do because it is a humane thing to do.

Asian cultures are so steep into symbolisms.

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#299431

My deepest gratitude to phill luckhurst, jsliao and Scotty,

I have been trying to find a way to connect different sites that I want to develop or help develop with others who have similar interests. A common favicon would unite them together without having to be “penalized” by search engines, like Google, that including links of the other sites in the other domains is just an attempt to “advertise” the other sites.

Cornelio

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