Paul Grenier, Lead Moderator
N_Williams
Member
Hi,
I have generated a favicon.ico file and after reading various articles on the web tried the following two methods:
1) placed the favicon.ico file in C:\inetpub\root directory of WSS site
2) placed the favicon.ico file in the Images directory on my SharePoint server and placed this code in the head section of default.master using SPD:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/favicon.ico" />
Neither method has worked! Can you help me please?
Nicola
Sorry but going back to basics :) did you check your master file back in afterwards ??
N_Williams
Member
Hi balcat,
Yes I did this - but it's not working.
Nicola
How long have you waited for it to appear? This may sound weird, but I've had it take as long as a couple days to propogate through the net and appear. -- Mark
eric
Moderator
I've run into this when branding our own Sharepoint deployment. The favicons were always flaky in Sharepoint when viewing in IE7. Sometimes they showed up, sometimes not. I always had to check via Firefox to ensure it was there.
As long as the icon is on the server,linked appropriately, and the master page being approved/published it will show up. Try looking in a different browser.
I just added my favicon to my site. Here is how I did it:
1) Saved the favicon.ico file in my Pictures library.
2) Edited the Master page and add the following code, I have an absolute link for my icon.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.bitsofsharepoint.com/Pirctures/favicon.ico">
This worked great. Remember that you have to do this in every master page on your site if you want it to show up in the other sites.
Also, I found that if I changed the favicon, I was trying different ones, that I would have to close all my browsers for it to refresh to the new favicon, it seems that the browser caches the favicon.
Hope this helps.
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