RSS and "brand awareness" Sep29 '04

# (1 of 7): Stuart » smkz.is-a-geek.net

1 day, 14 hours after the fact. (Thu 30 Sep 2004, 9:25 PM CST)

Brand awareness is pretty damn important for those site names which are quite widely used. Take for example, Terminate, the name is used quite a bit. So to counter being one of the others I developed the 'brand' which you can see as the upside-down 'i' come-explaination mark.

Speaking of which, are you going to create a bookmark icon for your site :P

I generally didn't notice it, until you mentioned bookmark icons ;)

# (2 of 7): Matthom

1 day, 14 hours after the fact. (Thu 30 Sep 2004, 9:39 PM CST)

I have a bookmark icon, and it's in the right spot in my web directory, but it doesn't show up in some browsers.

It's strange. And frustrating.

Previous comment Return to entry

# (3 of 7): Stuart » smkz.is-a-geek.net

1 day, 18 hours after the fact. (Fri 01 Oct 2004, 1:17 AM CST)

I figured out why. I just read your sites source code. You don't have 'shortcut icon' defined in your head tag. Put this into your head tag:

Should work then :P

Previous comment Return to entry

# (4 of 7): Stuart » smkz.is-a-geek.net

1 day, 18 hours after the fact. (Fri 01 Oct 2004, 1:18 AM CST)

argh....

[link rel="shortcut icon" href="/resources/terminate-icon.ico" /]

replace [ ] with < >

obviously! :P

Previous comment Return to entry

# (5 of 7): Matthom

2 days after the fact. (Fri 01 Oct 2004, 7:01 AM CST)

Thanks... I tried that.. hope it works.

Previous comment Return to entry

# (6 of 7): Josh Street » joahua.com

5 days, 13 hours after the fact. (Mon 04 Oct 2004, 7:52 PM CST)

Hmmm. Is your website doing some really trippy thing with mod_rewrite? Your favicon looks as though it were being included, or something. As an aside, you should change [link rel="shortcut icon" link="favicon.ico"] to [link rel="shortcut icon" link="/favicon.ico"], so that it works from ALL pages -- the preceding slash means the URI is relevant to the root of the current website. So, on this page, my web browser is looking at http://www.matthom.com/archive/2004/09/29/01/favicon.ico for the favicon, when in fact it should be looking at http://www.matthom.com/favicon.ico instead.

Previous comment Return to entry

# (7 of 7): Matthom

5 days, 13 hours after the fact. (Mon 04 Oct 2004, 8:01 PM CST)

Gracias. My favicon has caused nothing but problems, anyway. But your tip might help, in some way.

Thanks again.

Previous comment Return to entry