Favicon missing for the Forum

Post #1by **t00fri** » 07.01.2007, 20:01

Really a shame ;-)

While most GOOD Websites provide a nice little Favicon to their visitors, Celestia and its Forum do NOT.

With the advent of Firefox 2.00x, I am enjoying the most useful "Foxmarks" add-on that cleverly syncs the bookmarks on all my machines (both Linux and Windows, 6 in total... ).

In this context it is even more deplorable that the Favicon mechanism does not work properly for Celestia and its forum....(it works for the SF site, though)

How about doing something about it ASAP??

Bye Fridger

PS: Of course in CelestialMatters such trivialities work perfectly well ;-)

Post #2by **selden** » 07.01.2007, 20:12

Someone will have to create one, of course.
I suspect you might prefer that Chris spend his time on other things

Post #3by **t00fri** » 07.01.2007, 20:28

selden wrote:Someone will have to create one, of course.
I suspect you might prefer that Chris spend his time on other things

But that's really no big thing. We do have 2 "official" Celestia icons already. The whole work consists in selecting one, reducing it properly and placing it into the correct directory. A 2 minute job!!

Actually, the Favicon is lacking both under Linux and Windows.

I can't do it because of lacking permissions. Yes it's Chris' job. No doubt.

Bye Fridger

rthorvald · Post #4by **rthorvald** » 07.01.2007, 22:28

t00fri wrote:While most GOOD Websites provide a nice little Favicon

(... not to mention the many bad ones ;-)

)

Here you go:
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

... This one quickly converts an image to the appropriate format (of course, many graphics packages can do it too).

More important is: every page that is to serve out the favicon must have this line in it??s header (BEFORE the <body> tag):
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="PATH_TO_THE_FAVICON_FILE/favicon.ico">

... For the shatters.net website, it is simply a matter of adding it somewhere in the <head> section of each document. For the forums, you must locate the appropriate include header file and put it there instead. It will be only one single file that serves the entire forum - but you need to do it in both template sets (the default phpBB one and the Solaris one).

- rthorvald

Post #5by **t00fri** » 07.01.2007, 22:59

...

Right ;-)

Cheers,
Fridger

symaski62 · Post #6by **symaski62** » 08.01.2007, 01:48

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>
Celestial Matters!
</title>
<META http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link REL="stylesheet" HREF="http://www.celestialmatters.org/cm/styles.css" TYPE="text/css">
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type='text/javascript'> 
</script>
<body>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.celestialmatters.org/.templates/images/favicon.ico" />
</body>
.
.
.
</head>

[/quote]

Post #7by **chris** » 08.01.2007, 05:18

You people are fussy

Anyhow, you should see an icon for the forum now.

--Chris

Post #8by **t00fri** » 08.01.2007, 07:12

Gorgeous!

Just learned from Merriam Webster that "fussy" means "revealing a sometimes extreme concern for niceties" ...

Bye Fridger

PlutonianEmpire · Post #9by **PlutonianEmpire** » 08.01.2007, 07:54

Ummm.... what's a favicon?

Johaen · Post #10by **Johaen** » 08.01.2007, 12:53

PlutonianEmpire wrote:Ummm.... what's a favicon?

It also shows up under bookmarks/favorites, but I'd rather not take a screenshot of that atm :wink:

.

Post #11by **t00fri** » 08.01.2007, 16:43

PlutonianEmpire wrote:Ummm.... what's a favicon?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

Bye Fridger

Boux · Post #12by **Boux** » 08.01.2007, 19:39

t00fri wrote:Really a shame

While most GOOD Websites provide a nice little Favicon to their visitors, Celestia and its Forum do NOT.

With the advent of Firefox 2.00x, I am enjoying the most useful "Foxmarks" add-on that cleverly syncs the bookmarks on all my machines (both Linux and Windows, 6 in total... ).

In this context it is even more deplorable that the Favicon mechanism does not work properly for Celestia and its forum....(it works for the SF site, though)

How about doing something about it ASAP??

Bye Fridger

PS: Of course in CelestialMatters such trivialities work perfectly well

Much better now indeed.
The Motherlode has had a favicon for ages!
And Firefox 2 roxxes for sure, even if some plugins no longer work at all.
This is not a "triviality"
:wink:

PlutonianEmpire · Post #13by **PlutonianEmpire** » 08.01.2007, 20:58

Johaen wrote:
PlutonianEmpire wrote:Ummm.... what's a favicon?

It also shows up under bookmarks/favorites, but I'd rather not take a screenshot of that atm .

Oh, thanks.

:lol:

you naughty boy. :lol:

LordFerret · Post #14by **LordFerret** » 18.01.2007, 04:17

Humm... oddly enough, in Internet Explorer 7 (which I'm using) the favicons for Celestia Home and Celestia Forums do not show.

The ones for the Motherload, Celestial Matters, and Selden's List are just fine though.

Johaen · Post #15by **Johaen** » 18.01.2007, 04:44

LordFerret wrote:Humm... oddly enough, in Internet Explorer 7 (which I'm using) the favicons for Celestia Home and Celestia Forums do not show. The ones for the Motherload, Celestial Matters, and Selden's List are just fine though.

IE FTL...
FF FTW!

:wink:

Post #16by **Christophe** » 18.01.2007, 06:52

LordFerret wrote:Humm... oddly enough, in Internet Explorer 7 (which I'm using) the favicons for Celestia Home and Celestia Forums do not show. :? The ones for the Motherload, Celestial Matters, and Selden's List are just fine though. :D

That's probably because IE7 only looks for it at the root of the site.

The easy fix is to do it the "right way" (i.e. the standard compliant one), by adding:

Code: Select all

<link rel="icon" href="http://www.shatters.net/forum/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

to the site's template header.

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