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Agnes · #1 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007

Have you ever wondered about getting a fancy little icon by your url? Its so easy!!

Step 1- design your logo.

Step 2- resize your logo using this cool generator and save on your computer. Save as "favicon". So it would be favicon.ico.

Step 3- copy and paste this code on all your web pages.

Upload the file with FTP to the root section of your web site (the first page area, where you put files like index.html). Open up index.html, and add this line after any meta tags in the HEAD section but before the </head>.

<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://yoursitedotcom.here/favicon.ico">

OR

If you are in a user directory, without a domain, add something like this instead:

<link REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://yoursitedotcom.here/yourdir/favicon.ico">

and voila -- your very own favicon!

Tess · #2 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007

Nice tutorial Agnes

Thanks for posting!

Agnes · #3 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007

Posted it in the wrong place!

I do love the new How To's and Help Me's section!

Tess · #4 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007

Nah, it's OK

It's still a fabulous bit of info!

Rebecka Melson · #5 (**permalink**) 12-18-2007

Thanks for sharing, I always wondered how they did that. I'll add this to my list of things to do on one of my bored days. It seems fairly easy, but I know these kind of things always take me longer than I think they will.