Favicon for Magento e-commerce store

Favicon is a common short name for “favorite icon”. It is a 16×16 image that is displayed alongside with the name of the site. It brings not much functionality except of better recognizability of the site.

Well, it may be a part of site design also. The website that tends to be designed well should possess favicon that complies with the main idea of the site.

And I believe that every online shop should have its own favicon that helps it to position better. Usually it’s not too difficult to create or change your favicon. You just have to enter the root directory on your hosting and place there or replace the file favicon.ico with the one you’ve created.

But when working with Magento-based shop much to your surprise those actions are not enough. Most of the pages of your Magento shop will not be displayed with the favicon that is absolutely inadmissible.

In order to reach the right result you should find and replace all the favicon.ico files. They are situated here:

• Root directory
• root -> downloader
• root -> 404 -> skin -> your_interface_name -> images
• root -> report -> skin -> your_interface_name -> images
• root -> skin -> adminhtml -> your_interface_name -> your_theme_name
• root -> skin -> frontend -> your_interface_name -> your_theme_name (you should replace the file for each theme you use)
• root -> skin -> install -> your_interface_name -> your_theme_name

This is the easiest step while applying desing to your Magento store. But if you need much improvoments, maybe even some custom solutions for better e-commerce results, than you may need a professional help. So, the Oxagile Magento developers are at your service!