Process to add Favicon

[John Warner]

Used gwpriester's method after I failed with other methods in this thread, and had success. Is there a similar process to add touch icons for Apple and Andriod mobile devices, and would I add these in the variant versions?

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi John, this thread is about favicons that appear in the browser tab and alongside the bookmark listings.

I really don't understand what you mean re "touch icons", could you explain further?

[John Warner]

These will show up on smart phones when website is visited frequently or book marked; code is supposed to be as follows:
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="/apple-touch-icon-57x57.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="60x60" href="/apple-touch-icon-60x60.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="/apple-touch-icon-72x72.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="76x76" href="/apple-touch-icon-76x76.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="/apple-touch-icon-114x114.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="/apple-touch-icon-120x120.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="144x144" href="/apple-touch-icon-144x144.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="152x152" href="/apple-touch-icon-152x152.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/apple-touch-icon-180x180.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/favicon-32x32.png" sizes="32x32">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/favicon-194x194.png" sizes="194x194">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/favicon-96x96.png" sizes="96x96">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/android-chrome-192x192.png" sizes="192x192">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/favicon-16x16.png" sizes="16x16">
<link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json">
<link rel="mask-icon" href="/safari-pinned-tab.svg" color="#5bbad5">
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#da532c">
<meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="/mstile-144x144.png">
<meta name="theme-color" content="#ffffff">

[Egg Bramhill]

Never used one before but a very simple way to do it is to create a square png in Xara (I used 192x192px @ 192dpi), export it via ftp to your root directory as apple-touch-icon.png.

Seems to work for me.

[Egg Bramhill]

Did some more research into this, it's quite simple. Create a large square image in Xara. Export it as a png.

Go to the link below & drop in your image. It converts it to several sizes of apple icons, favicons and Windows icons.

Download the zip file and extract it to a folder named 'icons'

Return to the previous page and copy the supplied code.

Open it in Notepad and place /icons in front of the paths

ie

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/apple-touch-icon-180x180.png">
to
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/icons/apple-touch-icon-180x180.png">

Copy all the code and in Xara open up your site and in Web Properties / Website / HTML Code HEAD and paste. Apply. Save & publish.

In your ftp program (Filezilla for example) upload the icons folder.

Works fine.

http://iconogen.com/