Animated Favicon With Scrolling Text!

Niran

Sep 11 2006, 04:12 PM

Anybody needs Animated FavIcon with your site address scrolling on that along with your logo?

Check this site!

Thats the site without any customization Options!

But if you need to customize the Animated Icon, please reply here
(In the sense, Fonts & Color Customization)

Im doing it for Free!

Example is here: IPB Image

checkOut the fav icon for:

www.niranvv.com
and www.fun.niranvv.com

You can see one Icon along with one Scrooling Text: NiranVv.Com in the icon!

So, if you need that one, ask here!
I'll give you the animated favIcon(Gif Format)
along with Shortcut Icon(Ico Format)

ITS TOTALLY FREE!!

All You need to Give:
The small Image to be displayed as Icon( Or some Small Text To be displayed)
The Text to be displayed as Scrolling One!

( Edited:
Note: Animated ICONS (GIF Files) presently works only with FIREFOX & Netscape!
IE will show only static ICO Files )

How To Insert The FavIcon To your page:
Insert the code in between your <head> and </head> tags

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Niran

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ginginca

Sep 11 2006, 05:12 PM

Nice idea ... thanks for sharing.

We generally put favicons on our sites that we develop. However they don't tend to work with IE. Given the large volume of people that use IE ... I would love to have something working in it.

Does anyone know why?

If you want an example, to see the code, visit www.vividelements.com

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TavoxPeru

Sep 12 2006, 03:00 AM

QUOTE(Niran @ Sep 11 2006, 11:12 AM)

checkOut the fav icon for:

www.niranvv.com
and www.fun.niranvv.com

You can see one Icon along with one Scrooling Text: NiranVv.Com in the icon!

So, if you need that one, ask here!
I'll give you the animated favIcon(Gif Format)
along with Shortcut Icon(Ico Format)

ITS TOTALLY FREE!!
All You need to Give:
The small Image to be displayed as Icon( Or some Small Text To be displayed)
The Text to be displayed as Scrolling One!
( Edited:
Note: Animated ICONS (GIF Files) presently works only with FIREFOX & Netscape!
IE will show only static ICO Files )

How To Insert The FavIcon To your page:
Insert the code in between your <head> and </head> tags

Niran

I agree with ginginca its a nice idea and also very cool

, but it only works in FF & NS????? do you know why??? Also, thanks for the share, i will visit it later.

Best regards,

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Hercco

Sep 13 2006, 06:35 AM

QUOTE(TavoxPeru @ Sep 12 2006, 06:00 AM)

but it only works in FF & NS????? do you know why???

That's actually in his original post:

QUOTE(Niran @ Sep 11 2006, 07:12 PM)

Animated ICONS (GIF Files) presently works only with FIREFOX & Netscape!
IE will show only static ICO Files

The file format in which the browser accept the favicon is different. Even static GIF files won't work as favicons in IE.

By the way, Opera (9.01) loads the first frame of the GIF as favicon so it's not animated. Something you might wish to consider when you create your icons.

I have one problem with animated icons. See I like to have my favourite sites up the below the address field in "personal bar" or "bookmarks toolbar" and for sites that have clear favicons, which I can easily associate to the site I remove the text for the bookmark. So up there I have just bunch of favicons and I can fit a lot more quick links

Animated icon on my browser just doesn't sound very tempting..

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ginginca

Sep 20 2006, 01:03 PM

Forgetting about the animated icons for a moment ... how do I get favicons to work in other browsers? (IE).

The method we use for Firefox is:

CODE

(1) It doesn't work in Explorer.

(2) It doesn't come up on the bookmark list when you bookmark it.

Does someone know how to address these two questions?

Thanks,

Gin

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Niran

Sep 20 2006, 01:14 PM

QUOTE(ginginca @ Sep 20 2006, 06:33 PM)

Forgetting about the animated icons for a moment ... how do I get favicons to work in other browsers? (IE).

The method we use for Firefox is:

CODE

(1) It doesn't work in Explorer.

(2) It doesn't come up on the bookmark list when you bookmark it.

Does someone know how to address these two questions?

Thanks,

Gin

How did you created the Icon? Is it in correct format or not?
( I mean , creating one jpg or gif file and renaming that to .cico wont work

)
May be, thats the problem!
Check my page: www.niranvv.com in your IE!
whether it shows the Icon or not?
( I can see my static Icon in the address bar itself for IE 7 )

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Quatrux

Sep 20 2006, 02:16 PM

I don't really like the idea of using gif anims to have an animated favicon, in fact I don't like anything sliding in the browser

even the scrolling text done with javascript, I usually close the site and mentally say "a stupid webmaster"

But this is just my opinion.

For the favicon work, you need to save the file with the right .ico format, you can convert to ico anything using Gimp or Photoshop if you have it, moreover, you need to show the right path to it, say if you write href="favicon.ico" it will search for it in the current address directory, so use the right path.. Sometimes favicons doesn't save in bookmarks too, maybe because of bad headers sent by the server, don't know though..

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ginginca

Sep 21 2006, 01:10 PM

QUOTE(Niran @ Sep 20 2006, 09:14 AM)

Check my page: www.niranvv.com in your IE!
whether it shows the Icon or not?

In my IE 6, there is no icon. For the most part, I don't get favicons in IE. Makes me wonder if the issue is on our PCs. But clients tend to have the same thing happening too.

Are there any settings in IE that affect this?

Gin

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Niran

Sep 21 2006, 01:52 PM

QUOTE(ginginca @ Sep 21 2006, 06:40 PM)

Internet Explorer 6 is not supporting FavIcons!
But Internet Explorer 7 is supporting FavIcons ( Only Static .ico files, not animated Gif one )

So It not the problem with your coding!
But Internet Explorer 6 will show your icons in the bookmarks field!

Just bookmark your site in your browser and verify that one!

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ginginca

Sep 21 2006, 02:18 PM

QUOTE(Niran @ Sep 21 2006, 09:52 AM)

Internet Explorer 6 is not supporting FavIcons!

Shows you just how much I use IE *grin* - I'm 90% of the time in FF.

I'll try bookmarking.

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Feb 14 2009, 08:16 AM

Different favicons for FF, in personal brand strategie
Animated Favicon With Scrolling Text!

I've analysed my webstats and concluded that 40% of my visitors are FF users. Therefore, I've created separate favicons for Firefox.

It's actually been launched last week. I've created six animated favicons (different favicons for different tabs/ares), integrated with my (own) personal brand strategy. That implies that my face is shown, including attributes. On opening a page (or bookmarks) they are standing still, actually 80% of the time. After a little, sometimes funny, movie is played in the favicon.

Here's the site and a posting with lots of background info:
www.Erwinvanlun.Com/ww/full/animated_favicons

For the next step I consider let the favicon 'play' with the title or starting a sound. That would be great. But it should all be very subttle, as lots of animated favicons will soon irritate.

I'm curious what you think.

-reply by Erwin van Lun

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nightfox

Sep 22 2006, 03:18 AM

QUOTE(ginginca @ Sep 21 2006, 09:10 AM)

It'll show up in the bookmarks. There currently is no setting that you can change.

[N]F

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ginginca

Sep 21 2006, 03:14 PM

QUOTE(ginginca @ Sep 21 2006, 10:18 AM)

I'll try bookmarking.