#17 - Create a Joomla Favicon

With the advent of IE7, the favourite icon on your website is much more important than it used to be... whereas before you would rarely see a favourite icon, with IE7 it is now visible immediately on each tab that you open. The below shows you how to create a favicon in Joomla 1.0 and 1.5

To following is the easiest way to create a favicon in your Joomla website:

• Create a 16 * 16 pixel ICON image, name it favicon.ico
  
• Using the Media Manager (Site > Media Manager), upload and replace the default icon with your own icon

Joomla 1.0.x 

If you choose not to name your icon favicon.ico and instead name it xxxicon.ico you will need to change the name of the icon in the configuration (Site > Global Configuration), and change the Favicon field to xxxcon.ico or whatever the name of your icon is.

Joomla 1.5

• Upload it to your /images/ directory
• In your template directory, edit the index.php file and add the following line just before the </head> tag,

<?php echo "<link rel="shortcut icon" href="$GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]/images/favicon.ico" />" ; ?>

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leventsan - favicon change IP:88.242.70.229 | 2007-12-11 11:44:20 i am using opera firefox and ie7, my new favicon (that i prepared with paint) works with opera and firefox but not with ie7, whereas other joomla sites' favicons do appear properly !? i wonder if ie requires a special format or stg. thanks

DART Creations - favicon change IP:85.232.200.57 | 2007-12-11 12:23:01 You need to make sure that the correct .ico format has been used. The best is to use the website linked above to create a correct .ico message. If its visible in the website linked, it should be visible in IE7.

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