Tuesday, May 26, 2009

FAVICON




Did you know you can add a custom Favicon to your blog?

Favicon? Look to the left of the website address, and you will see my personal favicon, a red B. Before it was bloggers Orange B.


Why would you want a Favicon? A Favicon adds a personal brand to your Blog, instead of that little B to the left of the link.


What is a Favicon? A Favicon is really just any pic 16x16 pixels that you can add to your blog/


How to make a FAVICON, Your ready to dominate the world and you are ready to make your own Favicon

Step 1. open up illustrator, photoshop, paint, or whatever mac has and make your brand


(ideas)

KEEP IT SIMPLE, try 2 colors and a LETTER, that would be professional, and people will be able to read it.


Step 2. Upload your favicon to your blog.

Heres mine:



heres it bigger







Question on this step?
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41641


Step 3. press Preview, and right click on your Favicon and copy shortcut, (I am literally clicking on the favicon above.

Step 4. go to Layout in your blogger dashboard, click edit html

add the shortcut to your pic above this "head tag" near the bottom of your html code:




It should look like this:




And publish your template
Voila, Let me know below in the comments section if you need any further assistance

also check out this site, where I learned about this

LATER BLOGGERS

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