Favicons, what are they? Well, you know the little picture that sows up next to the web address in your browser, thats a favicon.ico. The one for this site is a square with the letter E. You can make one for your site too. Here’s how:
1. Make or find an image that will look OK when reduced to a little icon.
2. Then go to: http://www.favicongenerator.com/ and use the site to make your picture into a favicon.
3. Save the favicon.ico to your computer and upload it to your site. Place it in the root (public_html) folder. That is the same one as your index.php file is in.
4. Next, edit the main_page.tpl.php file. (you can use file manager to edit it) If you are using the default Web Niche Empire template, it is here: (public_html/templates/WNE_Default). Insert the following code into the main_page.tpl.php code, just before the </head> tag.
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://yourdomain.com/favicon.ico” >
Change “yourdomain.com” to your actual domain name. For example, it would look something like this:
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://webnicheempire.com/favicon.ico” >
</head>
Save it and you have a nifty icon for your site! (It may not show up immediately in your browser. Sometimes there is a cache that retains the old information of your site in your browser on your computer. It will eventually show if you did everything right. You can wait and see if it changes or try clearing your cache. There is more information on clearing your cache here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_your_cache )
