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I've noticed that some of the blogs have personalized "icons" next to their URL address when you pull up their page. Is this easy to do? And if so how do I do it?

Thank you!

It's very easy.

First create your icon. You can go here to the chami.com website to create it for you: http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

All you do is select your picture and it will resize to the proper dimensions/format (favicon.ico will be your filename)

Then in between the head tags in your template's index.tpl, insert a line like this:


<link rel="icon" href="www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico" />

Put the favicon in your root folder (or anywhere you choose, as long as you type in the correct URL to your favicon)

Hope that helps!

thanks so much, I can't wait to give it a try!

I just tried several times and it doesn't seem to be working. I paste <link rel="icon" href="www.jenstewartphotography.com/favicon.ico" /> exatly as it's shown here correct? quotation marks and all?

Maybe I'm not pasting it in the correct place in my index.tpl file. I may not be placing in between the head tags. Though I thought I was.

Or maybe I'm not uploading the correct file to my root folder. When I downloaded the favicon it created a zip folder. I extracted it and in the favicon folder there was a facicon and then a folder with animated_favicon1 preview_16x16 transparent and a read_me file. What exactly do I upload? The ENTIRE favicon folder (with the favicon in it along with the folder with additional files) or just the inital favicon. Does that make sence?

NEVERMIND! I got it! Thank you!!!!

Cool, I like it!

Thank you!

I believe you need to use a valid URL as the href. In his case, that would mean either adding http:// before the domain, or removing the domain altogether, leaving only the /favicon.ico, and therefore indicating that the file was in the root htdoc directory of the current domain.

You don't actually need a link line in your webpage. If no such line exists, the favicon will be fetched by default from http://domain/favicon.ico (the root of your htdoc directory). Simply place the file there, and everything will work as expected.