diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3eae22c..3219e54 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -46,12 +46,14 @@ See what you can customize.
 ### Example
 
 ```python
+AUTHOR = 'Foo Bar'
+SITEURL = 'http://yoursite.com'
 SITENAME = 'Foo Bar's Blog'
 SITETITLE = 'Foo Bar'
 SITESUBTITLE = 'Web Developer'
 SITEDESCRIPTION = 'Foo Bar\'s Thoughts and Writings'
 SITELOGO = 'http://yoursite.com/img/profile.png'
-
+FAVICON = SITEURL + '/images/favicon.ico'
 ROBOTS = 'index, follow'
 COPYRIGHT_YEAR = 2015
 CC_LICENSE = { 'name': 'Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike', 'version':'4.0', 'slug': 'by-sa') }
diff --git a/templates/base.html b/templates/base.html
index a051e3a..3b16ea6 100644
--- a/templates/base.html
+++ b/templates/base.html
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
   {% if FEED_ALL_RSS %}
   <link href="{{ FEED_DOMAIN }}/{{ FEED_ALL_RSS }}" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" title="{{ SITENAME }} RSS">
   {% endif %}
+  {% if FAVICON %}
+  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="{{ FAVICON }}" type="image/x-icon">
+  <link rel="icon" href="{{ FAVICON }}" type="image/x-icon">
+  {% endif %}
 
   <meta charset="utf-8" />
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />