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Favicon: how to change

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Date: Wednesday, 2009-06-24, 4:03 Am | Message # 1

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What is a favicon? A favicon is a small icon (16x16 px) in a browser address bar (near the url of your website). All uCoz websites have the following default favicon:

How to replace the default icon by a custom one?

http://faq.ucoz.com/#16

If this explanation is not enough then follow the steps below:

Download or create (by means of special programs) an icon - .ico file 16x16 px.

Name it favicon.ico.

Upload this icon to File Manager or via FTP to the root folder of your website (in the first folder where you see the original favicon.ico). You don’t need to delete the original icon, just upload a new one and the old one will be replaced automatically.

If you have done everything correct, then you will be able to view a new icon at _http://your_site.ucoz.com/favicon.ico. Go to your website and refresh the page. If the icon hasn’t changed, empty browser cache or simply wait for some time.

IE may not display the icon. To solve this problem try to paste the following code between <head> and </head>:

Code

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Date: Tuesday, 2009-10-13, 2:01 Am | Message # 31

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I upload my favicon, then I view the file, all I see is the ucoz one.

Did you name the file like this

Quote (Sunny)

Name it favicon.ico

Follow the steps given and it will work.

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Damian

Date: Friday, 2009-10-16, 11:29 Pm | Message # 32

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I just spent 5 minutes re-uploading, renaming and deleting the favicon I want to use, and every SINGLE time, the ucoz logo comes back, replacing the one I uploaded, the second I name it "favicon.ico"...

Scratch all that, I ended up just renaming my favicon.ico I was trying to use to "Favicon.ico" and added this code to the header:

Code

It worked great!

Message edited by Damian - Friday, 2009-10-16, 11:32 Pm