Website help regarding a "favicon" file...

[peterbeaumont]

Spoke too soon! It disappeared again  I'll sit and think before I make any more changes...

[Simon]

[peterbeaumont]

Exactly...I'll leave it for today and re-check tomorrow...the Server is in Kowloon HK, 7 hours in front of us here, maybe the time difference is an issue...although usually, no matter what time of day or night I make changes, they are usually effective immediately.

[Simon]

My guess is that's it's more of a local issue, as we are seeing the changes (admittedly, I haven't seen the latest one as I'm on my phone at preset), which does point to the delay being browser / cache related.  I'm not sure, does clearing the cache in IE also clear the favicons cache?

[Simon]

Peter, this may be worth a read:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3970936/how-to-clear-ies-favicon-cache

It seems to be saying the favicons cache is stored with History, so maybe clearing your browser history as well might be the trick?

[peterbeaumont]

Hi again Simon
I've been clearing the browser history each and every time...I won't make any more changes today and see if anything shows up tomorrow, when our time clicks over to Chinese time...
Just out of interest, does it display correctly on your screen at the moment?

[colirv]

Well Simon's tip (clear History) worked for me. I can now see it in IE for the first time.

[peterbeaumont]

Hi Colin - is it the one you see similar to the attached image? - that was the last change I made a few hours ago...

[Simon]

Here you go, Peter, this is what I see in IE, and it's the same in Mozilla.

[peterbeaumont]

Thank you Simon - it's now displaying on my screen too! (I was too scared to check before  )
I suspect that perhaps my original .ico image was dodgy...anyway, I guess it's sorted now, until I blunder into my next experiment...
Cheers

[Simon]

I suspect the Favicon Fairy was up to mischief again. 

[colirv]

Belatedly - yes Peter!