Stump the Panel Topic: Adding a Favicon to a WSS 3.0 Site

Peter Allen on "Adding a Favicon to a WSS 3.0 Site"

Peter Allen — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:49:57 +0000

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.

eric on "Adding a Favicon to a WSS 3.0 Site"

eric — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:42:24 +0000

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.

EndUserSharePoint on "Adding a Favicon to a WSS 3.0 Site"

EndUserSharePoint — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:45:19 +0000

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

N_Williams on "Adding a Favicon to a WSS 3.0 Site"

N_Williams — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:07:09 +0000

Hi balcat,

Yes I did this - but it's not working.

Nicola

baldcat on "Adding a Favicon to a WSS 3.0 Site"

baldcat — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:38:58 +0000

Sorry but going back to basics :) did you check your master file back in afterwards ??

N_Williams on "Adding a Favicon to a WSS 3.0 Site"

N_Williams — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:33:21 +0000

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:

Neither method has worked! Can you help me please?

Nicola