diff --git a/composer/layout/browser/configure.zcml b/composer/layout/browser/configure.zcml
index 062ec12..5dc52f3 100644
--- a/composer/layout/browser/configure.zcml
+++ b/composer/layout/browser/configure.zcml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
     xmlns:browser="http://namespaces.zope.org/browser"
     i18n_domain="cybertools.composer">
 
+  <browser:resourceDirectory name="default" directory="resources" />
+
+  <!-- main layouts -->
+
   <zope:utility
         component="cybertools.composer.layout.browser.default.page"
         provides="cybertools.composer.layout.interfaces.ILayout"
diff --git a/composer/layout/browser/default.py b/composer/layout/browser/default.py
index 28f5697..1b322d9 100644
--- a/composer/layout/browser/default.py
+++ b/composer/layout/browser/default.py
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ defaultRenderers = RendererFactory(ViewPageTemplateFile('default.pt'))
 
 
 page = Layout('page', 'page', renderer=standardRenderers['page'],
-              sublayouts=set(['css.liquid', 'body.liquid']))
+              sublayouts=set(['css.liquid', 'body.liquid']),
+              favicon='default/favicon.png')
 
 logo = Layout('logo.default', 'body.logo', renderer=defaultRenderers.logo)
 
diff --git a/composer/layout/browser/resources/loops_favicon.png b/composer/layout/browser/resources/loops_favicon.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1fc7485
Binary files /dev/null and b/composer/layout/browser/resources/loops_favicon.png differ
diff --git a/composer/layout/browser/standard.pt b/composer/layout/browser/standard.pt
index ef07413..5799b5c 100644
--- a/composer/layout/browser/standard.pt
+++ b/composer/layout/browser/standard.pt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 <metal:page define-macro="page"><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
   <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"
-        tal:define="body view/body">
+        tal:define="body view/body;
+                    layout view/context/template">
 
     <head metal:define-macro="head">
       <title metal:define-macro="title"
@@ -13,6 +14,9 @@
         <metal:css use-macro="view/renderer" />
       </tal:css>
 
+      <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico"
+            tal:attributes="href string:${view/page/resourceBase}${layout/favicon}" />
+
       <base href="." tal:attributes="href request/URL">
     </head>
 
