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[Blaine Friend BlaineJoin date: August 2007Posts: 1443Downloads:0Uploads:25 Thanks: 98 Thanked: 177 times in 154 posts]

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1. Create a 16×16 pixel image (Some programs prefer you start with a 32×32). You may use graphic software such as Photoshop, Gimp or Windows Paint or an online tool such as http://antifavicon.com/

2. Convert to ico format using free online sites such as:
http://converticon.com/
http://www.favicongenerator.com/
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

3. The file you created will have the extension .ico. Copy the file to the /joomla/templates/your ja template
directory and name it favicon.ico.

4. Open a browser. Do you see your new icon? If so, great! If not, that doesn’t necessarily mean you did anything wrong. Browsers are designed to minimize data traffic, so they don’t refresh the favicon every time they show a page. Even refreshing the page (F5) wont help. So you need to refresh more thoroughly:
Mozilla / Firefox / Safari: hold down Shift while clicking Reload, or press Ctrl-Shift-R (Cmd-Shift-R on Apple Mac);
Opera users may need to completely clear their cache in Tools>Preferences.
Chrome: Shift-F5
IE: hold Ctrl while clicking Refresh, or press Ctrl-F5;
Konqueror: simply click the Reload button, or press F5;

If this doesn’t work you will need to delete the temporary internet files and the history and then open your page again.
Some templates contain code that redirects the browser to another directory or another icon file. To determine where your new favicon should be, examine http://yoursite.com/templates/your_ja_template/index.php and look for code that contains the text

<link rel="shortcut icon"
.

There you will find the directory and the name of the icon file. Copy your icon to that place and give it the the name that link is pointing to (you might want to backup the old file). Make sure you set the security correctly such that you webserver has access to that file. Look at the example below.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://yoursite.com/templates/your_template/icon/favicon.ico" />

Also know that it may take several days for the favicon to show in the browser ~ even if you did everything right!

[jooservices Friend jooservicesJoin date: October 2014Posts: 8556Downloads:0Uploads:130 Thanked: 1245 times in 1121 posts]

#420244

Hi,
This is a cool guide, I appreciate your work but this seems to be applied for old templates but T3 templates.
With T3 templates, you must override and change the code of head.php under block folder.
Thanks
Viet Vu

[Blaine Friend BlaineJoin date: August 2007Posts: 1443Downloads:0Uploads:25 Thanks: 98 Thanked: 177 times in 154 posts]

#420272

Hi Joo!
Thanks for the terrific input! Maybe you could follow up with any other additional info regarding the T3 template differences and add them here in order to better serve our wonderful users!
Thanks!

[jooservices Friend jooservicesJoin date: October 2014Posts: 8556Downloads:0Uploads:130 Thanked: 1245 times in 1121 posts]

#420405

Okay you can check this one as well http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/need-to-put-google-analystic-code-please-help/#post-420401

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