Change your Websites Favorite Icon

How to change your website's icon for your internet browser.

Create a 16x16 pixel icon image called favicon.ico. This must be saved in the ico format. If you do not have photo editing/creating software that can create ico files then you will need to download one.
After you have created the file, upload it to your public_html directory.

Add the following code to the head of page that you want to change the icon for. In most cases this is your index.htm or index.html file.

< link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://yourwebsite.com/favicon.ico" >

Replace yourwebsite.com with your domain name and remove the spaces between the "greater than" and "less than" symbols.

That's it!
  • 451 Users Found This Useful

Was this answer helpful?

Related Articles

Redirect Internet Explorer visitors to a supported browsers page

Redirect users of Internet Explorer to a supported browsers page or any other page.  To do this,...

How do I parse html files as shtml?

Create an .htaccess file in the directory needed and add the following: AddHandler...

Error 508 / 503 - Resource Limit Reached

To help maintain the stability of servers and keep websites fast, UltraWebHosting has resource...

Point Multiple Domains to the Same Website

Pointing other domains to your website is easy! Simply make sure their DNS settings are pointing...

Heartbleed Vulnerablity, Risk and Fix

The Heartbleed bug (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed_bug) is a serious vulnerability which...