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How to change Joomla Favicon

All Joomla! installations come with preinstalled Favicon that looks like thisfavicon. It is Joomla logo. In this article we will cover how to change Joomla default icon with your own.

Creating your own favicon

Favicon is a 16x16 pixels small icon. Usually that is only enough for a letter or a square shaped image. If you try to stuff to much things into your icon, it might not look good. How do I do it? You can create it on your own or use online tools that will do it for you .

Replacing Joomla default icon

Favicon in Joomla is located in /images/ folder. So what you need to do is upload and replace the old icon with new one. It is called favicon.ico. We use Filezilla to connect to our web host.

Tadaa!

Our Joomla Favorites Icon is actually our logo.

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Troubleshooting

In some browsers you might not see new favicon immediately. Thats because Favorites icon are cached. If the new icon wont show, try pressing Ctrl+F5 for IE or Ctrl+Shift+R for FF.

More about Favicon.ico (1FavIcon.com).
 
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