You CAN use favicon on rootsweb. Ann uses it on her own county pages: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnsherbu/ The favicon feature is a browser-implemented feature. It will check the root directory of the whole website for a default, but not any others. (I think when it first came out in 1999 IE checked the current directory first before checking the root, but that generated too many useless http requests and so that was dropped.) To get it to be used for your webpages when its top-level directory is not the root for the website, you need to have a line in each of your html files: <link rel="icon" href="mngenwebfavicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> And of course you have to have the file in your top-level directory. If a page is in a sub-top-level-directory, you'll need to prepend "../" for each level to find the icon file in your top-level directory. For example, /~mnfoobar/2nd/3rd/file.html would need to have href="../../mngenwebfavicon.ico" Or, just use href="/~mnfoobar/mngenwebfavicon.ico" in all your pages and hope that you never leave rootsweb. :) (Or whatever the path would be if you are on a non-rootsweb host.) John On Feb 08, 2015, at 22:14, Laverne H. Tornow via wrote: > If I remember correctly, and I may well be wrong on this, you can't use > favicons on Rootsweb. I have tried putting the graphic in the > public_html directory which is for all intents and purposes the "root" > folder and I have tried using it in the main directory that only has the > public_html folder in it and it does not work, however it does work on > my webhosting svc where I keep and online back up so if for some reason > I need to have site url changed to there, it is ready to go with just a > url change on the MSGenweb State Page. > > Laverne > On 2/8/2015 5:44 PM, Shirley Cullum via wrote: >> Ann Hammer has created a favicon using the new logo and she has graciously >> offered it to all members of the MNGenWeb if they would like to use it. >> Here is the link: >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnsherbu/mngenwebfavicon.ico >> >> Thanks Ann! >> >> Shirley

You can use favicon's on Rootsweb. Theirs is a default favicon for any pages that do not have one of their own. You may have to delete your browser history files to see the one that you use. Browsers are very lazy and create a cache of old pages to pull up when you request it. By deleting the history file cache of old pages, you force the browser to refresh the page from the server. Bryant -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Van Essen via Sent: Monday, February 9, 2015 12:34 AM To: MNGENWEB via Subject: Re: [MNGEN] Favicon with New Logo You CAN use favicon on rootsweb. Ann uses it on her own county pages: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnsherbu/ The favicon feature is a browser-implemented feature. It will check the root directory of the whole website for a default, but not any others. (I think when it first came out in 1999 IE checked the current directory first before checking the root, but that generated too many useless http requests and so that was dropped.) To get it to be used for your webpages when its top-level directory is not the root for the website, you need to have a line in each of your html files: <link rel="icon" href="mngenwebfavicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> And of course you have to have the file in your top-level directory. If a page is in a sub-top-level-directory, you'll need to prepend "../" for each level to find the icon file in your top-level directory. For example, /~mnfoobar/2nd/3rd/file.html would need to have href="../../mngenwebfavicon.ico" Or, just use href="/~mnfoobar/mngenwebfavicon.ico" in all your pages and hope that you never leave rootsweb. :) (Or whatever the path would be if you are on a non-rootsweb host.) John On Feb 08, 2015, at 22:14, Laverne H. Tornow via wrote: > If I remember correctly, and I may well be wrong on this, you can't > use favicons on Rootsweb. I have tried putting the graphic in the > public_html directory which is for all intents and purposes the "root" > folder and I have tried using it in the main directory that only has > the public_html folder in it and it does not work, however it does > work on my webhosting svc where I keep and online back up so if for > some reason I need to have site url changed to there, it is ready to > go with just a url change on the MSGenweb State Page. > > Laverne > On 2/8/2015 5:44 PM, Shirley Cullum via wrote: >> Ann Hammer has created a favicon using the new logo and she has >> graciously offered it to all members of the MNGenWeb if they would like to use it. >> Here is the link: >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnsherbu/mngenwebfavicon.ico >> >> Thanks Ann! >> >> Shirley ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message