John you were right.I cut and pasted <link rel="icon" href="mngenwebfavicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">into my index page header and the favicon shows up!  Thank you.Unfortunately you were also right that I have to put it in the header of every page.again thanks!Vikki   From: John Van Essen <[email protected]> To: MNGENWEB via <[email protected]> Cc: Laverne H. Tornow <[email protected]>; Vikki Gray <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2015 10:33 PM Subject: Re: [MNGEN] Favicon with New Logo You CAN use favicon on rootsweb.  Ann uses it on her own county pages:     http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnsherbu/ The favicon feature is a browser-implemented feature.  It will check the root directory of the whole website for a default, but not any others. (I think when it first came out in 1999 IE checked the current directory first before checking the root, but that generated too many useless http requests and so that was dropped.) To get it to be used for your webpages when its top-level directory is not the root for the website, you need to have a line in each of your html files:   <link rel="icon" href="mngenwebfavicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"> And of course you have to have the file in your top-level directory. If a page is in a sub-top-level-directory, you'll need to prepend "../" for each level to find the icon file in your top-level directory.  For example,   /~mnfoobar/2nd/3rd/file.html    would need to have   href="../../mngenwebfavicon.ico" Or, just use href="/~mnfoobar/mngenwebfavicon.ico" in all your pages and hope that you never leave rootsweb.  :)  (Or whatever the path would be if you are on a non-rootsweb host.)     John On Feb 08, 2015, at 22:14, Laverne H. Tornow via wrote: > If I remember correctly, and I may well be wrong on this, you can't use > favicons on Rootsweb.  I have tried putting the graphic in the > public_html directory which is for all intents and purposes the "root" > folder and I have tried using it in the main directory that only has the > public_html folder in it and it does not work, however it does work on > my webhosting svc where I keep and online back up so if for some reason > I need to have site url changed to there, it is ready to go with just a > url change on the MSGenweb State Page. > > Laverne > On 2/8/2015 5:44 PM, Shirley Cullum via wrote: >> Ann Hammer has created a favicon using the new logo and she has graciously >> offered it to all members of the MNGenWeb if they would like to use it. >> Here is the link: >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnsherbu/mngenwebfavicon.ico >> >> Thanks Ann! >> >> Shirley