Inserting favicon - favorites icon

A favorites icon (favicon), also known as a website icon, a page icon, or an urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. For example http://www.wildapricot.com/ has a little apricot icon shown right before the URL in the internet browser:

Wild Apricot allows you to customize your website in a similar way. You can create a unique icon that would uniquely identify your Wild Apricot website on the internet.

• File type '.ico', see how to add shortcut icon
• Image size: should be 32x32 or 16x16 pixels

There are many free online .ico converters that can convert your image into a proper file. Just do a search for "ico converter" in your favorite search engine. e.g. http://www.icoconverter.com

Follow these steps to add the icon to your site:

1. Upload your icon to your Wild Apricot site. Upload the file you want to use via the File manager and place it in the Pictures folder.
2. Edit Meta tag. Go to editing of global meta tags for your site (See: Meta tags) - and insert the following code into Raw header:

   Change the part that says <FILE NAME> to the name of your file (example: favicon.ico - do not include brackets around the file name). Now click on [Reset all pages to use this] button. Click [Save] button to exit.

4. Logout. In order to see the result you have to logout from your administrator account. When you go to your site, you should see something similar to our example: