Haraaahh!! I just thought I’d have another sneaky look at my blog, just to see if there was the minutest change that my favicon would display. I wasn’t expecting anything, but low and behold my beautiful shiney favicon is now displaying in all its glory. Proof that miracles do happen.

Here is a screen shot of the favicon. I thought I had better include this as proof that it works, just in case it decides to disappear for some reason:

I have left it well over a day and my favicon stil isn’t displaying, although I seem to have said this repeatedly during this module, this time I mean it -  quite frankly I am baffled!! Tom said that the code is correct and in the right place in header.php so there should be no problems there. I tried reloading the favicon to the server in the mushblue theme folder using the ftp file manager in dreamweaver, which again I have been assured is correct. But no!!! No sign of the damn things.

Its really frustraiting as I’m sure I’m missing something blindingly obvious and I hate it that Friday’s lecture is so far away as I really want to get this blooming favicon to display now…if it’s the last thing I do.

I think I may just have managed to get my favicon working. It was simply a question of inserting the relevant coding into the head tag. I think the problem with my last attempt was that I inserted the code in the wrong place. My friend Tom assures me that my favicon should show up within the next day or so. This is the image I chose for my favicon:

I have tried following through the instruction for adding a favicon to the letter, but I am scratching my head so much now it is giving me brain ache aaaarrrggghhhh!! Firstly I generated the favicon I wished to use, which was no trouble. I then downloaded it and installed it on my blog site using ftp, but this is where the instructions aren’t that clear, it doesn’t say where it needs to be placed in wordpress. I placed the generated favicon file in the mushblue theme on the ftp and uploaded it to the server. Then I added the code on the header.php here:

Unsurprisingly this did not work, in fact when I first added this I sent my whole blog a little crazy and moved everything to the left???!!!! So I thought rather than messing up my whole site I better quit while I’m ahead and seek expert advice from Mez