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Lio
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Favicon when ImageVue is only a folder in a website

02 Nov 2011, 17:16

Hello :)
it's me again, but after many test I only can ask here.
I have my gallery in my website so ImageVue it's not used as website but only as a gallery in a website.
My website has a personalized favicon and my blog too. I put a different favicon in Imagevue (the liosite favicon is different from the Blog favicon and the same should be for ImageVue gallery).
But no way to have the favicon in my gallery: i tried to change the favicon with a smaller one, I tried the website showed in a post by Nick too: no way!!
The icon quality, dimension or size is indifferent and I only have the NO icon (white). I have my cache continuously cleaned and I waited for some day every time I tried with another favicon.
At this point I'm thinking the problem could be dependent of the fact that Imagevue is "only" a folder in a website, but in this case, why not show the favicon of the website?

What have I to try?
Thanks in advance
Lio
 
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mjau-mjau
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Re: Favicon when ImageVue is only a folder in a website

03 Nov 2011, 00:15

I am not sure why, but your favicon is not even displaying for your main website:
http://www.liosite.com/

You have:
http://www.liosite.com/Immagini_Varie/f ... iosite.ico
Code
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="Immagini_Varie/favicon_liosite.ico"/>
Three recommendations, where I one or the other may solve it:

1. I would recommend adding the FULL path with http://
2. Maybe use "type" as recommended in Wiki? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
3. Normally, if you just add "favicon.ico" to website root, browsers will pick this up without needing any code
4. Why is your favicon so big? I am not sure browsers can handle that, as they should be 16x16 ... Use these tools to either upload and convert a favicon, or draw one online:
http://www.favicon.cc/
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
 
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Lio
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Re: Favicon when ImageVue is only a folder in a website

03 Nov 2011, 10:58

mjau-mjau wrote:I am not sure why, but your favicon is not even displaying for your main website:
http://www.liosite.com/
So, you don't see my favicon? I see it with clean cache on my desktop and in the laptop too (the laptop don't have any direct link with me because I only used the desktop for my website)
This is what we see online:

Image
mjau-mjau wrote: You have:
http://www.liosite.com/Immagini_Varie/f ... iosite.ico
Code
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="Immagini_Varie/favicon_liosite.ico"/>


Three recommendations, where I one or the other may solve it:

1. I would recommend adding the FULL path with http://
2. Maybe use "type" as recommended in Wiki? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon
For the first recommendation I did it in local with the portfolio icon with no luck
For the second one I'm changing all my html code now in dreamweaver so we can tell something soon.
mjau-mjau wrote: 3. Normally, if you just add "favicon.ico" to website root, browsers will pick this up without needing any code
4. Why is your favicon so big? I am not sure browsers can handle that, as they should be 16x16 ... Use these tools to either upload and convert a favicon, or draw one online:
http://www.favicon.cc/
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
For the point 3 I agree with you, but seeing that in my computer having all the favicon in a folder, seemed working fine, I preferred to have more order with all the folders.
4. I have a heavy icon because I did the icon con all the dimension. Now I left only 96-64-32-16 and it's lighter. I did a try with both your link sometime ago, but with a really poor result and also with that icon in Portfolio doesn't work.
I'm tryng now with some changes and I'll let you know.

Thanks again for your support, overall to try to understand my awful english: sorry about that :oops:
 
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Re: Favicon when ImageVue is only a folder in a website

03 Nov 2011, 17:42

Hello!
I've tried all the day with no solution at this problem and at the "Social Things" sharing widget. In both problem my .ico or .png image are not showed up.
In the favicon problem, I tried everything and I appointed my attention on your phrase
1. I would recommend adding the FULL path with http://
I cannot do this with ImageVue: I don't have a html file in which I can put a link. I can only put my favicon in ImageVue/Portfolio root and the program should do the rest.
Or am I wrong?
In my html webpage I can put in the head
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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="Immagini_Varie/favicon_liosite.ico"/>
and it works fine for me as it works fine in the WP blog inside my site. http://www.liosite.com/Emozionando_blog/; but where have I to put in my Gallery?

For the "Social Things" sharing widget it's the same enigma.
I changed the personal data for the code in seo.counters. I don't still have my result, but for sure the image I've created (16 and 32 pixel) to give a link like you did with ImageVue, doesn't work.
I cannot see anything but the "writ" (2011 - liosite.com): no image. I tried to put the image on the same path than you instead of in my icon folder: same thing.It seems to me that the problem is in my png or icon. I did all my image with Photoshop CS5, nothing different.

Can you check in my gallery and told me what's go wrong.
Thanks in advance

Lio
 
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mjau-mjau
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Re: Favicon when ImageVue is only a folder in a website

03 Nov 2011, 22:52

First of all, in Imagevue, we do not have any code for FAVICON. We just provide a default favicon, and when you drop it in the root of your website, it "just works".
Image
See the bottom part:
wiki wrote:favicon.ico located in the web site's root Yes Yes Optional[24] Yes Yes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

Why not just add it like that, and it will work globally for all pages?

As for the "Social things sharing widgets", this is obviously something totally unrelated to the favicon which can be fixed by following the above example. What is the link to your gallery where you have added the code please? Did you remember to add the custom CSS also??
 
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Re: Favicon when ImageVue is only a folder in a website

04 Nov 2011, 15:24

Ok Karl, I think my biggest problem is making myself understood in :oops:
I had read the Wiki article but I didn't change my html file because of my favicon was already visible in all liosite's pages.
And the same was in the WP blog.
Do you mean that ImageVue cannot have an indipendent favicon from Liosite ? So it's useless I put my favicon in ImageVue root?
So it would be logical to remove the favicon that I put here http://www.liosite.com/Portfolio/favicon.ico? But then the gallery will load the favicon of the site if I'll put that favicon in the root?
I have the liosite favicon (working) in the html page and another favicon (in effect is always the same icon) here http://www.liosite.com/Emozionando_blog ... avicon.ico for the blog.

About the "Social things sharing widgets" I put the CSS file and in setting - seo - counters (after the counter code) the code for the widget. I have had this working but without my website icon. I changed a lot of things and now it's not working at all so I' ll try newly from the original code.
My problem is to individuate every single part of your code that needs to be replaced. :cry:

Damn, in these cases to be old and learn new things is not 'easy! :(
Thanks to all of you for your time.
Lio
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Re: Favicon when ImageVue is only a folder in a website

05 Nov 2011, 01:28

Lio wrote:Do you mean that ImageVue cannot have an indipendent favicon form Liosite ? So it's useless I put my favicon in ImageVue root?
So it would be logical to remove the favicon that I put here http://www.liosite.com/Portfolio/favicon.ico? But then the gallery will load the favicon of the site if I'll put that favicon in the root?
No, I mean that for most sites including yours, you want the same favicon on all pages of the entire website, and how to achieve that? - Just drop "favicon.ico" in the root of your website, and ALL pages (including Imagevue) will use this main favicon. Even if you DO have specific code for this in Wordpress or other pages, this is optional but it certainly is not required (and has no reason either, unless you want to use different favicons on different pages).
Lio wrote:I have the liosite favicon (working) in the html page and another favicon (in effect is always the same icon) here http://www.liosite.com/Emozionando_blog ... avicon.ico for the blog.
Yes, and ti works for wordpress because you have told Wordpress "Hello Wordpress, I have a favicon and I want to upload it in a specific location but don't worry I will add the code also in your theme". Unfortunately, adding a favicon to Wordpress only adds it to wordpress ... This is a simplistic approach for a wordpress theme, but certainly not recommended from a developers perspective. If you want the favicon to appear for all pages on your website (including non-wordpress pages), then you either need to copy the favicon code into ALL page templates, or simply drop favicon.ico into the root of your website.

So, what is the easiest solution then?
The easiest solution would obviously be to drop the favicon.ico in your root, and this is generally recommended anyway. I am not sure why we need to discuss this any more, because this is the best solution, the easiest solution, and also THE way to do it properly ...
Lio wrote:About the "Social things sharing widgets" I put the CSS file and in setting - seo - counters (after the counter code) the code for the widget. I have had this working but without my website icon. I changed a lot of things and now it's not waorking at all so I' ll try newly from the original code.
My problem is to individuate every single part of your code that needs to be replaced. :cry:
I need to see your website to understand what might be wrong. Unfortunately, when it comes to this certain part of custom html overlaying your gallery, this is not really something we "include" in Imagevue, because it is generally custom code with widgets loaded from social services (which they like to change once in a while also). If we could make this part easier, we would, but its generally just a suggestion as to how you might want to integrate these social widgets into your website.
Lio wrote:Damn, in these cases to be old and learn new things is not 'easy! :(
It's not easy for anyone to keep track of these things, including ourselves. I think you re doing very well :) We hope in the future, we can make our interface even easier to use ...