Changing my Mozilla Firefox DDM 'Toolbar Bookmarks' icon - Dallas Dance Music - Dallas nightlife, music, tickets, and more

MysteryMeat · 08-04-04, 08:15 AM

Most of my other toolbar bookmark buttons automatically change their icon when I first visit the page after adding the button to my browser.

I want to take the symbol on the right side of the DallasDanceMusic logo above and use it instead of the default generic document icon.

Any thoughts?

Alienswede · 08-04-04, 01:17 PM

I'm afraid you're on your own on that one, Bruce

MysteryMeat · 08-08-04, 07:22 AM

Eiwe & Annesta;

I did some research on this to figure out what was up with how this works and such. It's actually pretty simple if you guys are interested in adding this feature to the site. Using a favicon.ico does a couple of things: in the address bar of IE 5.0+ and Mozilla browsers (and some others), your icon will show up just to the left of the address itself. Also, when the site is set as a bookmark or favorite, this icon logo shows up there as well. Personally, I just think they're classy and professional

Ok, so onto the meat of it: adding this feature only involves very simply ammending 1-2 to a few short lines of code, depending on whether or not you have root access (got root?

...note, you can still do it without, there is just a different route). Microsoft's succinct explanation of the IE feature, including code to make it work can be found >--at this link here--< .

On a side note: if you two actually -are- interested in doing this, i took the liberty of creating a favicon.ico from the DDM logo at the top of the site (the spinning-looking cool symbol

) . I did my research first: the file I created was cleaned, clipped, and shrunken to 16x16 pixels. Just in case, I converted it to an 8bit image (it only orignally had 182 colors, anyway, but I did it to make sure), then I used an actual file conversion application to create the .ICO file (as opposed to some thinking that replacing the file suffix on a .BMP with .ICO is the came as a conversion -- it's not, at least not in this case). Since I can't upload the .ICO version to DDM, a .BMP version can be found at

; just let me know if you want the .ICO version and I'll mail it to you

MysteryMeat · 08-08-04, 01:50 PM

FUCK YEAH... IT WORKS!!!

Wow... now I feel like I all gave something back and shit

08-04-04, 08:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
MysteryMeat Ain't your momma's meat Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 1,364	Changing my Mozilla Firefox DDM 'Toolbar Bookmarks' icon Most of my other toolbar bookmark buttons automatically change their icon when I first visit the page after adding the button to my browser. I want to take the symbol on the right side of the DallasDanceMusic logo above and use it instead of the default generic document icon. Any thoughts?

08-04-04, 01:17 PM	#2 (permalink)
Alienswede Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: NYC Posts: 838	I'm afraid you're on your own on that one, Bruce __________________ Alienswede.com me [at] alienswede.com

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08-08-04, 07:22 AM	#3 (permalink)
MysteryMeat Ain't your momma's meat Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 1,364	Eiwe & Annesta; I did some research on this to figure out what was up with how this works and such. It's actually pretty simple if you guys are interested in adding this feature to the site. Using a favicon.ico does a couple of things: in the address bar of IE 5.0+ and Mozilla browsers (and some others), your icon will show up just to the left of the address itself. Also, when the site is set as a bookmark or favorite, this icon logo shows up there as well. Personally, I just think they're classy and professional Ok, so onto the meat of it: adding this feature only involves very simply ammending 1-2 to a few short lines of code, depending on whether or not you have root access (got root? ...note, you can still do it without, there is just a different route). Microsoft's succinct explanation of the IE feature, including code to make it work can be found >--at this link here--< . On a side note: if you two actually -are- interested in doing this, i took the liberty of creating a favicon.ico from the DDM logo at the top of the site (the spinning-looking cool symbol ) . I did my research first: the file I created was cleaned, clipped, and shrunken to 16x16 pixels. Just in case, I converted it to an 8bit image (it only orignally had 182 colors, anyway, but I did it to make sure), then I used an actual file conversion application to create the .ICO file (as opposed to some thinking that replacing the file suffix on a .BMP with .ICO is the came as a conversion -- it's not, at least not in this case). Since I can't upload the .ICO version to DDM, a .BMP version can be found at ; just let me know if you want the .ICO version and I'll mail it to you

08-08-04, 01:50 PM	#4 (permalink)
MysteryMeat Ain't your momma's meat Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 1,364	FUCK YEAH... IT WORKS!!! Wow... now I feel like I all gave something back and shit