HOWTO Add favicon to your web site

To add a favicon to your site or blog do the following (tried on Linux):

• Create an image in GIMP 16×16 or 32×32 in size, number of colors – below 16
• Save it as favicon.ppm
• Convert it to ico using this command:

1	ppmtowinicon -output favicon.ico favicon.ppm

• If previos step doesn’t work – install netpbm and netpbm-tools packages:

1	$ sudo yum install netpbm netpbm-tools

• Copy favicon.ico to your website document root directory
• Add the following lines to your index.html or header file:

1 2	<link href=’http://www.URL.com/favicon.ico’ rel=’shortcut icon’/> <link href=’http://www.URL.com/favicon.ico’ rel=’icon’/>