Adding new content to website & creating an icon?

Hi everybody,

I am editing a musicreview website, so i want to add a new review at the top of my page. (above all the previous added content) (like a blog) but, what to do with all the other content thats on that page? Can i easily move it or do i have to group it all in order to move it down?

Need some help there :-)

furthermore,

i was wondering if i could create an icon for my site, so when you open the browser you'll see it next to your site-name. (like the red-square with tg for this site)

Many thanks in advance,

Cheers, Vanderwhite

Welcome to TalkGraphics Vanderwhite

Hmm? That's a tough one. If your reviews are all text then you can extend the text area and add your new text to the top. But if you have graphics such as disc covers, etc. it is going to be harder.

Your second question is easier to answer. The small logo/icon is called a favicon. This can be created with a free program called icoFx

It creates an .ico image file. Select the 16 x 16 pixel size option. Save your icon with the name favicon.ico

Place this in the same directory as your index.htm(l) file. The browsers will see this and display it.

There is an easier way that shall be revealed very soon. ;)

Come on gary let us have a heads up about the April release ;)......

Oke...great. Very glad with the answer on the second question. Too bad that you can't do the adding thing in a blog(ish) way. Now i have to group everthing. Anyway if you find a better way...let me know

thanks for your help

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

Welcome to TalkGraphics Vanderwhite

Hmm? That's a tough one. If your reviews are all text then you can extend the text area and add your new text to the top. But if you have graphics such as disc covers, etc. it is going to be harder.

Your second question is easier to answer. The small logo/icon is called a favicon. This can be created with a free program called icoFx

It creates an .ico image file. Select the 16 x 16 pixel size option. Save your icon with the name favicon.ico

Place this in the same directory as your index.htm(l) file. The browsers will see this and display it.

There is an easier way that shall be revealed very soon. ;)

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I think i made a mistake. i've downloaded the program, created a new file 16x16 (true colour + alpha), and made an icon. saved it flavicon.ico (windows icon) and put it in the directory index.htm. i re-published my site and i cleaned the browser cache. It still doesn't appear. What to do now?

thanx

Is may take some time. If you can, preview your site in another browser. It should show up there.

Some ISPs cache all sites on your computer and make it very hard to refresh the content. But if you have another browser, and have not visited your site recently, then it should appear.

If you want to post a link to your site we can have a look and confirm its presence or absence.

I don't use any other browser than google chrome. I think i've done it correctly, so maybe it turns up later, or when u open it.

www.musaqazha.net (still has a lot of work to do) :-)

thanks for your help..

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I think i made a mistake. i've downloaded the program, created a new file 16x16 (true colour + alpha), and made an icon. saved it flavicon.ico (windows icon) and put it in the directory index.htm. i re-published my site and i cleaned the browser cache. It still doesn't appear. What to do now?

thanx

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1. Check your spelling - I assume "flavicon.ico" is just a typo in your post and you actually created favicon.ico instead.
2. I haven't created a favicon for a couple years now but when I last did I included several versions with different sizes (16x16,32x32) and different colour depths (256, true colour) - the free program I used back then created them all in the one file so that browsers could choose the best/preferred option. Mine didn't have an alpha channel though as it's a solid rectangle (transparency can be a mess when you don't know what colour background you may have).

Thanks, i will check it out tomorrow and let you know.

I still don't know what i'm doing wrong. I can't save more favicon's because i can save only one time that file, it will overwrite the other file. I've done it a couple of times with 32x32, 16x16, 24x24 and different colourformats, but still nothing.
I looks so stupid with no proper icon. :-)

Thanks anyway

OK Now it can be revealed. New Web Designer 7 Premium (http://www.xaraxone.com/webxealot/workbook87/index.html) can create a favicon. You create the image in a square and convert it to bitmap. In Web Designer 7, add the Name favicon (yellow name tag icon). When you export the site Xara creates a favicon to the right size (even if yours is not). You can see the favicon that was created when I exported my review.

You can also create a sitemap for your site and a robots.txt file which help identify your content to the search engines.

Just don't have the money for it 'yet'. I am thinking about taking the premium version. But, i still have a problem with the favicon in xara wd6.

Do you have any ideas what's wrong?

As to favicon: I create a graphic in my Xara product 32x32px, group it, then export to a .png image.
Open that in another program called Irfanview (free image viewer I use instead of the windows viewer because of options).
File save as favicon.ico Then use FTP to upload the favicon.ico image into the main directory of the website. Whereever your index.htm page is, that is where you should place your favicon.ico file.
Never capitalize or change anything about that name.
Once it is up on the site, you will have better luck viewing immediately with FireFox than Internet Explorer.
IE stores favicons in Temp files and they can be wiped out or not added in if you have a shortcut to that page already.

If you have already stored your shortcut link to your website in your favorites, remove it.
Close IE, come back in and set a new favorites link.
That sometimes forces IE to bring the image into your computer.
Close the browser, reopen and you MAY see the favicon now.
Note that favicons are finicky in only IE. Other browsers do not store the ico formats in the temp files where they can be easily and mistakenly dumped.

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Just don't have the money for it 'yet'. I am thinking about taking the premium version. But, i still have a problem with the favicon in xara wd6.

Do you have any ideas what's wrong?

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Your favicon must be an .ico file. If you are using a .png, .gif, or other image format it will not work.

The favicon has to be uploaded to the root directory where your index.htm(l) document is.

This is slightly different in Web Designer 7 because the favicon is placed in the index_html_files folder and somehow WD7 gets it where it needs to be. Perhaps a reference in the style sheet?

Samantha, I would expect the same tools to appear in Designer 7. But if last year is any indication, Designer 6 was not released until June and it could be a bit later this year because now that Web Designer is released, the r&d people need to take a deep breath and then get started putting Designer 7 together.

Thanks, i will try it now and let you know..

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But if last year is any indication, Designer 6 was not released until June and it could be a bit later this year because now that Web Designer is released, the r&d people need to take a deep breath and then get started putting Designer 7 together.

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I wish they had an upgrade path for us DesignerPro users too, that allowed us to preorder the upgrade - and allowed us to use the WD7 Premium while we're waiting...

I am glad that XDP will contain the new features and that it will be a while before it is available...better for budget (or lack thereof ;))
Last year I upgraded my XWD from 5 to 6 then when Xara Xtreme Pro 5 become XDP6 I upgraded that program too.
And decided I would drop that product and stay with XDP going forward as long as the web features continue to evolve.
(The individual object selection from the layer/page gallery make it worth while for me, even if I didn't need any other of the pro features. I missed that in web designer!)