Ok .. I admit it .. this isn't really just a SharePoint thing, it's a "web" thing, but quite frankly I am astounded that this isn't something provided out of the box.
So what are these favicon things anyway?
Favicons are the icons that appear in your web browser when you are surfing. They usually appear in the address bar (depending on your browser) and were originally created for older IE environments to help identify web sites in the Favourites folder (hence the name "favicon" = "favourites icon").
Ok, thats great, so how do I get them in SharePoint?
Well, it's really quite simple. Favicons are represented by small "link" tags in your HTML. In SharePoint the most sensible place to put them is in the Master Page. The reason for this is that (generally) your Master Page is rendered for pretty much every page .. therefore you don't have to add favicon links all over the place.
All you need to do is put a "link" tag into your Master Page, within the "<head>" tags (i.e. it needs to be in the page header!)
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/Portal Images/favicon.jpg" />
How to "SharePoint'ise" it!
I know, that's not a real word, but the best approach you can take is to place your icon image (either an icon or image file) into an Image Library. You can then place a relative URL to a specific image in that image library, and it allows the content editors to upload a new favicon whenever they want :) (with the same version control and content approval you would normally have).
Thats exactly what I did with the sample line of code above, with a file called "favicon.jpg" which is located in an Image Library called "Portal Images" at the top level of the site collection.
Now, if you want to get REALLY fancy, then you could change it to be relative to the Site Collection (so each site collection could potentially have a different favicon). Do you that, just follow my earlier post on creating "Site Collection Relative URLs in MOSS 2007".
Neat eh?
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