Changing your Magento Favicon
Its something that is so small yet so significant. The favicon. The label of your store. The identity of your website hangs on this small 16×16 square image. Without it you are nothing but a default magento website.
This tutorial will show you how to swap your favicon on your store in the 1.4.0.1 version of magento. It’s really easy and only requires a few small file replacements. Here’s how you do it…
First of all, get yourself a nice favicon – you can do this in many different ways and the most commonly used favicon is based on the website logo. This is a good choice as the logo IS your website. To get a favicon either make one yourself in photoshop or go to http://www.favicon.cc/ where you can make and download one online.
Once made you should copy your favicon.ico and paste it into the following places (overwriting as you go):
/ (Your root layer)
/skin/adminhtml/default/your theme/
/skin/frontend/base/yourtheme/
If you paste it into those following areas and upload you should see that your favicon is now active and working like a treat!
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Just what I was looking for, took less than five minutes to make the favicon and add it to the site. Thanks…
No Worries Richard,
Just a quick note -It’s not easier in the later versions of magento – simply use the inbult favicon upload bar in your admin section: system>design>HTML head
Hy Robert,
how can I change favicon at the page source? If I look on to the page source show my favicon, but in a few seconds appears the magento favicon.
Thanks