My Own Personal Rubicon
Okay, so I am always futzing with my blog. Or else, I am visiting someone else's blog and think, hey, that's neat-o! I want that! The latest spit-shine, though, was my Rubicon, my Mt. Everest, my multiple orgasm. Did you notice?
You more discerning types must have noticed my favicon, eh? It's the flag in front of the title in the browser tab. You would not believe how many hours I spent on this. Yep, I play at being an html kiddie, but this was a tricky one. I pestered CG to no end until he helped. Usually I get so frustrated with html, I just ask him to do it for me. This time I entered it ALL BY MYSELF. CG was in the home office IM-ing hints and ftp-ing me converted .jpg to .ico images, true. But, I keystroked it in. If you can't tell, I'm beaming here.
So, for all you out there who want to do this on blogger, here's a quick D.I.Y.:
1. Convert file from .gif/.jpg/.png to .ico with Adobe, GImp or whatever you use. Remember Blogger only supports the .ico format.
2. Save the picture on your flickr or photobucket account. Then right click on your image and click properties. Copy the link starting "http...
3. Go to your blog. Click customize. Click template . Click "edit html" tab.
4. Key in Control and the letter "f". This will pop up a find window. Type
<head> and hit enter. 5. Below
Don't forget the quotes around your link
6. Click save at the bottom of the html window
7. View Blog to see if it worked. Be sure to reload page because some times your cache makes your browser lazy.
As I said, I'm no expert. However, I believe in sharing the joy. I would be happy to help if I can. Also, it would be a good idea to save a copy of your original template before you start, just in case you erase something you shouldn't. Believe me it happens. Enjoy!
2 Witty Comments For Me:
okay, so after figuring out how to type in < and > and then having them show up as < > -- not as code, I realized it should be 'image/ico' not 'image/gif' on both code lines on step #5. That said, that's the way it is on my template and it seems to work just fine. I don't know. It seems like blogger can intuitively know what I mean--sometimes!
Cool, thanks for the tip! Now to find perfect picture.
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