Favicon for Movable 4

A FavIcon is a great little identifier for your movable blog. Favicon (pronounced fav-eye-con) is short for "Favorites Icon".

The Favicon is displayed on the Address line and in the Favorites menu of your browser. The Favicon allows the webmaster to further promote their site, and to create a more customized appearance within a visitor's browser.

How to create favicon

  • First, you need to create an ico file for your favicon. An easy way to create one is with FavIcon from Pics, a free tool that converts any picture into a FavIcon.
  • After creating your FavIcon, you need to download the the .zip file and extract to get at the icon.
  • Then upload the favicon.ico file to web site's root.
  • Add the following HTML to your templates between tag <head>. To do this step open head template and insert this following code
    <link rel="icon" href="<$MTBlogURL$>favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
  • Do not forget to save and rebuild the templates. You can check to see that the icon is working by simply visiting your site. Refereshing the page or restarting your browser might be necessary.

Your movable type blog should looks great now. Good luck!

July 20, 2007 No Comments Movable , Tutorial

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