Drupal Themes and Favicons

A favicon also known as a shortcut icon, Web site icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more small icons, most commonly 16×16 pixels, associated with a particular Web site or Web page. Its that small image that you see on you Firefox tab along with the name of the webpage.

Clients like favicons but making one can be easy or hard, it depends on your approach. If you're old school, then you can use MS-Paint or GIMP or if you're like me,I cheat. I use a web favicon generator. I use favicon.ico generator. Most amazing thing about favicon.cc is that its free. FREE!

You have a favicon, you'll need to copy it to your theme folder. Make sure that is on the same folder as your .info file. Don't put in a sub folder like say img or css.

You'll need to edit your theme .info file. Here is a excerpt of mine theme .info file.

; ------- Declare default theme information

name        = LGR 960.gs
description = Omega Sub-Theme for LGR
screenshot = screenshot.png
core       = 6.x
base theme = omega

; ------- Declare default theme features
features[] = logo
features[] = name
features[] = slogan
features[] = mission
features[] = node_user_picture
features[] = comment_user_picture
features[] = search
features[] = favicon
features[] = primary_links
features[] = secondary_links

The thing here is the theme features section where it says feature[] = favicon. This basically says to Drupal to look for your favicon on the same level folder where the .info is placed and use it. Normally, this is automatic to Drupal themes especially if you subtheme one of its many primary themes like Zen or Omega.