How would i go about adding a favicon to my site.
Would i upload the icon as part of the design and stick something like this at the top of my design: -
You could do that, though some browsers (IIRC) have a problem with favicon.ico files that are not directly in the root.
Alternatively, you can use Apache to serve a favicon.ico file directly (ie. outside Matrix) by adding an additional Alias line in the httpd.conf file.
Finally, in v3.6, you will be able to upload an .ico file and tell Matrix to maintain its "friendly" URL, so that it'll be served as normal.
What would the alias line be in apache…I can look it up but if you know…
You should have 4 lines for your Matrix install in Apache aliases. If you look at the 4th one (the one that says anything accessing the root URL of your install should be aliased to index.php), it should make sense as to what the alias would be.
Or, if you're lazy:
Alias "/favicon.ico" /path/to/favicon.ico
Note that this MUST come BEFORE the last Matrix Alias line, or won't work.