--- type: Article title: FavIcon installed description: I finally got round to adding the favicon back into the site. I used to have one a long time ago but it was pants. resource: https://www.simoncox.com/short-articles/2003-07-24-favicon-installed/ tags: [Shorticles, Tech, Web] timestamp: 2003-07-24 --- I finally got round to adding the favicon back into the site. I used to have one a long time ago but it was pants. You should be able to see the fav icon in the address bar above - a little picture of me! If you bookmark the site the favicon will reside beside the bookmark. Favicons are 'favorites icons' - icons used in your favorites section of your browser. Initally designed to work with IE most other browsers are now able to see them. To build my favicon I used the Iconforge software available from the [favicon.com ](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126172114/http://www.favicon.com/)site. Its painless to install and fairly easy to use. I set up my image in Photoshop and resized it to 32px x 32px and saved it as a gif and then imported it into Iconforge and simply exported it out as a favicon .ico file. To get it to show on the site I uploaded it into my assets directory and then added the following link into the head tag of my pages: I actually use the [Moveable Type system ](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126172114/http://www.moveabletype.org/)so I simply updated my templates and rebuilt the whole site. Voila! [Read full article](https://www.simoncox.com/short-articles/2003-07-24-favicon-installed/)