Anyone Adding Favicon to their site

[HodagMediaParticipant]

I just stuck it at the top of the header.php and put the favicon.ico in the same folder (but I have it in the root too, which didn’t seem to work)

If that’s vague content>themes>symbiostock>header.php

Here’s a whole overblown explanation using Photoshop. If you have Irfanview, it does it without downloading or installing anything. http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/jennifer/favicon.html

Wordpress version which is much more straight forward. http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Favicon (and the right way to include it on your site)

One and done = Make a 16×16 – 8-bit – browser compatible color – image, save as favicon.ICO 🙂 Some more modern browsers read GIF and PNG files just fine.

Here’s software (free of course, remember who this is)

http://www.favicon.cc/

Personally I make mine with Irfanview which if you hit F12 activates Paint. Many people don’t realize that a simple free open source editor like Irfanview can do so many things.

And just in case someone has never heard of it, I have Irfanview on every computer, quick and easy editing for many simple purposes. It’s not much but it’s very functional. Fast loading for those snapshots to email conversion or a quick message to a friend, but reduced to a friendly WEB size for attaching, like 1000 pixels wide, instead of Humongous from the camera size.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Favicon is a nice touch for any website so the bookmark has your personal logo and it will also appear on the site location bar as well.

Have Fun!

[ChristineParticipant]

I always find that finding where to put it is the main problem as it is one thing that never seems to update immediately, I do think they add a little extra something to a site when you can see a logo at the top 🙂

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[njeneParticipant]

AHAHAH

I LOVE your favicon!

I think I felt a little pee come out when I laughed…

[vectorjourneyParticipant]

When I put it on top of the header.php I got the white screen of death!

It worked placing it on the bottom of the header.php

Thanks for the hint!

🙂 🙂 🙂

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