Viewing favicons
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User: Ben L. 9 years ago
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I see I can add various favicons to my EverWeb site. I'm not sure how these things work ... I realise I can click one and be taken somewhere (a URL I can add myself). I notice in EverWeb I'm being taken to an EverWeb page relating to a particular site, like Facebook. I'm wondering if those are just the placeholder URLs. I can see how to MAKE a favicon. I'm just not sure of their purpose, in the case of Facebook, Twitter et al. Why does someone want to go to Facebook from my site? To promote or share my site on Facebook? If I just put in the general Facebook address, wwwfacebook.com I get a blank white pop-up box. I'm about to try the EverWeb default URL ... to see where THAT takes me. I've been Googling, but not coming up with a satisfying explanation about how to use these things. Any help would be super appreciated. Ben |
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User: Roddy 9 years ago
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A favicon is the little icon which sits to the left of the URL in the browser. Its only useful purpose is to help the URL stand out from lots of others in the browser history list or bookmarks. When using Safari for desktop, it's also useful for quickly opening the page in the iOS Simulator to see how it will perform on an iPad or iPhone. See the bottom of the Mobile First page for info about this. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Ben L. 9 years ago
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Hi Roddy; I'm going to use the iOS simulator. I tried to download it yesterday, but the bandwidth where I'm situated this week is super narrow ... and the download kept failing. I'm going to try again this morning. Might be the reason why I couldn't buy widgets on your site the other day. I see the favicons on others' sites (maybe these aren't actually favicons in this instance?), like at the bottom of the Rolex page they have four or five of the things ... mmm ... I just clicked one, and a pop-up gives me a URL... oops, slow bandwidth... now I see I can log into my Facebook using the pop-up. And I guess why I'm logging into my Facebook page is I'm supposed to tell all my friends about Rolex (not likely)? So does that mean that someone clicks the Facebook (favicon?) on my site and a pop-up gives them the log in box of Facebook? Right now I'm just getting a blank white pop-up box. So I've obviously set the URL for the favicon incorrectly. Apologies for being so dumb. |
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User: Roddy 9 years ago
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These are social media links - not favicons.
------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Ben L. 9 years ago
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Aha! I'm slowly getting my head around some of this. So those social media links are only relevant if I have a Facebook page or Twitter account related to the site. Got it. Found some bandwidth. Going to download your suggested iOS Simulator. Nice to discover my sites are loading very fast on a decent link. |
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