#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 1.5

• 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,

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>/images/favicon.ico" />

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.