Installing a favicon on your website
aparently, all u need to do is upload your favicon image file to the root web directory of your hosted website. Make sure your favicon file is named exactly “favicon.ico.” When someone bookmarks your site with a browser that supports favicons, your favicon should appear apparently...
well...if just placing the favicon in root the directory does not seem to work, then alternatively there is code included here to make it work.
This is the original code i found for this:
although this above code works for me, I feel like it is kinda junky...so i wrote a shorter cleaner looking code:
Use my shorter code above; Make sure your favicon file is named exactly favicon.ico and have it uploaded to your root server folder. Insert code inside the tags, and below the tags (do not place the code before the title) like so:
<head>
<title>Page Title
Very Important:
make sure 'href' value is set on a http(s)://
if 'href' value is just set to local file, then me and the whole rest of the world won't be able to see your favicon.