How To Add a Favicon To My Website
Hi whats up beautiful people, I was working on one of my websites today and it took me like an hour to add my a favicon to my website because everywhere i was going there was someone trying yo sell me something. Ofcourse this is online so theres always something free somewhere. I found them all and this process has no been simplified. So if you found your way here cool.
Oh yea this wont work for free hosting website in order for this to work you have to own your own domain. In case your not exactly certain what a favicon is? it’s that picture beside the link you see on many websites when you add the website to your favorites or drag a link to your desktop. ok here we go
1.) First you have to find the Favicon you want add. Just find a random pic you just want to know how to do it you can find your dream pic later because all of this is very easy.
ok so find the pic and then save it to your computer as “favicon”. MAKE SURE you name it “favicon” and nothing else no quotation marks ofcourse ( right click pic, save pic as, favicon)
2.) you need to resize the image to “16 x 16” meaning 16 height 16 width i recommend using your own editor but if you don’t have one I found one here http://www.resizeyourimage.com/
3.) Now you need to change that 16 x 16 image into a .ICO file which is easy just visit http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ and follow the basic instructions.
4.) Now you need to log into your cpanel hosting and look for the root file for me it was ” public_html ” folder and then you just upload it. You’ll know it’s in the right place if you can type http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico and see your picture there.
5.) If you see your pic than congrats you now have a favicon on your website this method works for all websites except those that are hosted on free hosting.
If your on free hosting i think you have to do it on every page. But I dont have time to go through that right now
. If i missed a step or you want to add something leave a comment below.
