Re: [IUG] favicon and Web Master

[Cindy Reid <creid at socialaw dot com>]

Hi Chris,

That worked!  Thank you.

Also thanks to Mark Strang for his suggestions

-Cindy

Cindy Reid
Systems Librarian
Social Law Library
John Adams Courthouse
One Pemberton Square
Suite 4100
Boston, Mass. 02108-1792
617-226-1326

Chris King wrote:
> Hi, Cindy.
>
> One idea you may want to try. (I'm assuming you're using Windows.)
>
> If you open "My Computer," find where you've stored your favicon.ico 
> file. At the top menu, choose "Tools" then "Folder Options." Click on 
> the "View" tab. In the bottom two thirds of that dialog box, look for 
> "Hide extensions for known file types" and make sure it is UNCHECKED. 
> Press "Apply" and then "OK" enough times to close that box.
>
> Now try to rename "favicon.ico" to "favicon.gif" and then upload it to 
> Millennium. Once it's in your screens folder, copy it as favicon.ico. 
> When I tried on our system, nothing _seemed_ to happen, and 
> interestingly I couldn't _see_ the file as it's not an officially 
> supported file type. But my FTP program shows that it truly is there.
>
> We're on 2006, but not Pro. I think we did the same thing in 2005, as 
> well.
>
> Hope that helps!
> Chris