those little images in my aggregator

[vikingyouth]

little square images that sit next to the names of some of the podcasts i have in my aggregator... how does one go about doing that?

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[slodaddy]

It's called a favicon. Use one of the available icon creation programs to make your 16 x 16 pix icon. Name it favicon.ico and place it in the root directory of your website. Most web browsers will automatically pick it up and display it in the address bar and bookmarks folder. You must create the image as an icon; you can't just rename a gif or jpg because it won't work.

[jeffoest]

I also use the favicon for all of my websites. However, it still doesn't show up in my RSS reader (bloglines) like some do. If I had to GUESS, I would say it's because I don't have authority to put a favicon in the root directory of the host server but I'm not altogether sure....

[slodaddy]

You can put the favicon in any directory, however, if any directory other than root you must add some html to the head of each page that will point to the favicon in the directory it resides. The code below; replace the question marks with the correct brackets.

??LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.YOURsite.com/favicon.ico"??
??base href="http://www.YOURsite.com/"??

[vikingyouth]

so i made my icon, named it and put it in the root directory. no luck. then i put it in every other directory, no luck. then i added the code and it worked but non of my images in my site would load. so then i pulled out the bottom piece of code and the icon would show up while loading and then dissappear once the page was fully loaded. WTF??? :lol:

any ideas?

[slodaddy]

I just went to the site you have linked at the bottom of your post, Viking Youth..... and a favicon popped up in my browser address window and the bookmark link. It looks like a little black and white image of someone's head and shoulders. Is that your favicon? If so, it seems to be working. I'll try the xml file later.

[vikingyouth]

yeah, it's a bob dobbs head. weird. wonder why its not working on safari. thanks for all your help!

[slodaddy]

Favicons are kinda unpredictable. Sometimes they show for a month or two on your browser, then disappear. Sometimes they show up next to the wrong link in your bookmarks. I guess its still an inexact science.

[slodaddy]

Not sure about this, but. I remember reading that some browsers prefer a larger favicon that the browser can auto-resize for whichever resolution you happen to be running. You might try making your favicon 32 x 32 pix. As I said, your favicon is already showing up on my windows xp using both firefox and internet explorer at 1280 x 1024. I'm using iPodder for podcasts, and it doesn't show any favicons for anyone.

[vikingyouth]

yeah, i'm seeing it now on my mac, but nothing in my aggregator.

thanks again i really appreciate you help and patience.

peace!