How to set-up a favicon?

Question

I am trying to do a very simple preliminary exercise to setting up a website which is creating a favicon.

This is the code I am using:

Answer 1

There is a very simple method to set a favicon, which had been around for a long time AFAIK. Place the favicon.ico file in the default location. i.e

http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico

This works in almost every browser without a tag. However, this works only if it is an *.ico file. PNGs and other formats still have to be linked with a tag