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Hi there, I have added Bookmark Icon in the C5 dashboard. The icons work with Firefox etc but not with internet explore 9, I just the internet explorer 'e' logo come up. Any ideas on how to get around this?

frameIT
 
adajad replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
adajad
Does the icon have .ico extension? Is it square in size (16x16px or 32x32px)? Try with creating it as .bmp and then rename it with the .ico extension. You could also try naming your icon favicon.ico

You could also try to remove it from the dashboard settings and add it manually:

Method 1:
Upload your favicon.ico to your root. Should now be picked up by all browsers.

Method 2:
Upload your .ico file (with whatever name you want) to your root and add the following in your templates <head> section:
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.mydomain.com/myicon.ico"/>
PatrickHeck replied on at Permalink Reply
PatrickHeck
Please note that while the ICO can be a container for a BMP Image, it is still not identical. So I'd be a little careful about doing file conversion by just changing the extension. (Maybe someone who has done some research can tell us if this leads to reliable results.)

Some Information about the ICO Format here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ICO_%28file_format%29...
adajad replied on at Permalink Reply
adajad
I totally agree with you, I was just saying that you could rename a .bmp to .ico if you don't have the correct software to make an icon (even though that wasn't clear in my previous post).

The preferred way is absolutely to use the correct file format.

(As a side note - I also use gimp for my icons and everything else concerning images.)
PatrickHeck replied on at Permalink Reply
PatrickHeck
My preferred way of creating an favicon, that works everywhere is using GIMP http://www.gimp.org/ . Just open your png and save it as ico.
It is also the only programm I know that supports 8-Bit alpha channels for ico files.
frameIT replied on at Permalink Reply
frameIT
Hi there, Got it to work YAY thanks for the help!
adajad replied on at Permalink Reply
adajad
Great! Which method did you do?
frameIT replied on at Permalink Reply
frameIT
First answer. Found that I had not made the bookmarks a .ico file.
adajad replied on at Permalink Reply
adajad
Glad I could help.