We (Cruzer, Gable, and I) are working on our site icon. Currently, if you have Foxfire, you should see our logo already in your internet address box. (WAAAHHH!! Gable can see it and I can't! Bummer) If you have IE like me, you can't. Not sure why. Also, having issues with getting it to Shortcut. This may take a call to Sparklit Forum Tech guy, Jeff. He's the bestest tech dude EVER!
It's a work in progress. Thanks for everyone that has asked for this. Clear your internet options/caches, reboot, and see what you can see...leave your results and operating system (XP, Mac, etc) as well as Foxfire/Mozilla/IE, etc so we can know who sees what. And if anyone is good with this stuff (cuz apparently I stink at it...)....let us know! We appreciate any and all help.
Hi all, I have had an icon since I joined. It is a orange square with a white "B" in the center. Doesn't everyone have this? Inquiring minds need to know...
Right now I see the "hobbit hollow" logo in my address bar when I open the forum, but I only see it with FireFox. It's a mountain view, with a farm in the foreground. It's the same picture that the forum administrator uses as her avatar.
(I do NOT see an orange icon with the letter B like Dennysblondie, but I do remember seeing that one in my favorites list in Internet Explorer.)
DB, thats because you shortcutted the HH Homepage which is hosted by Google/Blogger. The orange B is the Blogger flavicon. I haven't added the flavicon there yet...that's the next site project.
If you would like to create a shortcut to HH right on your desktop, and not hafto go into Favorites:
Go to the page you want to shortcut -- the HH home page, or forum page, if you like -- right click and select Create Shortcut. It will ask you if you want it placed on your Desktop. Say Yes. Voila. It will place a shortcut right on your desktop. ============= Step 2. I am attaching an icon you can attach to the shortcut to pretty it up. Big Whoops! Can't attach icon files. Yay. I can still show you how I did it -- just a couple of steps.
Save this .jpg file on your computer, to a folder or your Desktop. To do so, Right Click on the HH picture then Save Picture as (name will be supplied, just travel to folder or select Desktop); hit Save.
Go to this website page: http://www.coolutils.com/Online-Image-Converter.php# Select Browse, then find .jpg file in your folder or Desktop, select file, and click Open to fill in box at website. Select bottom option "Convert to ICO". Diaglogue box will open. Select Save, and choose a folder or Desktop to save it to.
============= Next, Right click on the HH shortcut you have created. Select Properties; select Change Icon; select Browse; then select folder you've placed .ico file in (in this case my Desktop); select .ico file; hit OK; then hit Apply and OK.
Et Voila! You'll have a pretty picture and an easy way to navigate to HH. ========== Sorry for all the computer garble you have to go through. If it had just let me attach the icon file; but, noooooo. You may not want to go thru all this rigamarole -- if you try it and have ANY questions at all, please just let me know.
cruzer
-- Edited by gable875 at 22:20, 2009-01-21
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Hey, DB, I hear you! I just want to point out that you don't have to take it to Step 2 above and beyond -- with just a couple of clicks, at least you can put a shortcut on your desktop and not hafto navigate to Favorites, always!
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Many thanks, Cruzer!!!! I now have the orange box icon thanks to you!! But I wanted to say that when I tried to create it from the forum page, it created an icon but when I clicked on it, it took me to Sparklit's web site, not HH. So I did it from the Home page of HH and it worked.
I'll print your instructions above and try that too later. We sure do appreciate all your efforts, and thanks again!!!
I also shortcuted through the forum page, i got the orange box when i did it a while back but i think i will try to get that preety mountain scene so much nicer.
Trust me I thought it was gonna be hard too. But it really isn't. DB if you want I will walk you through it...I will PM you my IM addy just let me know..or if anyone else needs help I will PM you my IM lol
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