Change your Website Favicon, Please!

I have to admit that one of my biggest pet peeves when visiting a website is seeing a default favicon image in the top title of the page, whether it be from your website hosting company or the theme logo.  If you don’t know what a favicon is check out this screenshot:

I don’t really know why that bothers me so much. Perhaps it’s because I feel it is in an important piece of keeping consistent branding on your site.

Most of the time it is fairly easy to change out your favicon image.  You can even just changeout the favicon.ico file in the file directory of your site through FTP.

Did that last sentence just sound Greek to you?  If so read on – there are other ways.

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