Thursday, 20th January 2022
How to Add a Favicon to Your Django Site
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Adam Johnson did the research on the best way to handle favicons - Safari still doesn't handle SVG icons so the best solution today is a PNG served from the /favicon.ico path. This article inspired me to finally add a proper favicon to Datasette.
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Pixel editing a favicon with Pixelmator
— I wanted to [add a favicon](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1603) to Datasette, using a PNG image served from `/favicon.ico` as suggested in [this article by Adam Johnson](https://adamj.eu/tech/2022/01/18/how-to-add-a-favicon-to-your-django-site/).
TIL
Promoting the stable version of the documentation using rel=canonical
— I was thinking about documentation SEO today. Like many projects, Datasette offers multiple versions of the documentation:
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Linking from /latest/ to /stable/ on Read The Docs
— [Read The Docs](https://readthedocs.org/) has a handy feature where documentation for older versions will automatically link to the latest release, for example [on this page](https://docs.datasette.io/en/0.56/spatialite.html):