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Today is a short tutorial on putting a Favicon on a Blogger Blog. For those of you who have a WordPress Blog, click HERE to see a tutorial on how to do the Favicon on WordPress!
Why do we go to this trouble?
Simple.
Branding.
It’s a simple way of adding more personalization and branding to your blog. It places an identifiable graphic on the tab holding your blog on everyone’s browser. You can reinforce your brand in multiple subtle ways. This is just one example.
Installing a Favicon on a Blogger blog is actually quite an easy job. It seems to be one of the things that Google has made quite straight forward!
The first thing that you are going to do is to create your graphic.
I’m not very good with graphics, so I tend to create simple icons. Keep in mind that this graphic will be really small and not much detail will be visible. Because of this, I have created a graphic that is simply a set of initials on a colored background. This graphic should be square and small. Mine is 50pxX50px and saved as either a .jpg or .png and it needs to be less than 100 kb
Next, you need to open your dashboard for your Blogger blog and click on the “design” tab. This will bring up a screen like below.
Towards the upper left of the print screen above you can see the word Favicon and the word Edit beside it. See screen shot below.
Click on the word Edit and you will see the following screen.
Click on the browse button and choose the graphic file that you have saved on your hard drive. Click on Save. This will put your little graphic in place. Your screen should show the Favicon in place as below.
Let’s look at a before and after so that you can see the difference.
Before:
After:
Now it’s time for you to do this on your blog! Easy! Drop me a note if you have questions or if you are interested in getting a little more help!
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Today’s lesson is about how to install a Favicon for your WordPress Blog. If you have a Blogger blog, I’ll be posting a tutorial on how to do this on a Blogger blog in a few days.
Are you staring at your computer trying to figure out WHAT the &*^% a Favicon is? and why you would want on on your blog?
I was like that also – until I realized how important the favicon is in branding. Branding is so important these days – to you – to me – to anyone trying to sell something! A Favicon is the little graphic at the corner of the tab on your browser. Depending on which browser you use, if there isn’t a favicon present, an empty box outlined by dotted lines is present.
Here’s a test 
Identify the following four favicons.
How did you do? Hopefully 4 out of 4! I don’t know if you are like me, but I tend to have tons of tabs open on my browser when I’m working. I’m sure I’m not supposed to…..but it is pretty easy to click between tabs using the favicons!
So let’s learn how to do this for your WordPress blog.
The first thing you want to do is to create a graphic.
This is the graphic that I created for this blog. Nothing fancy. I created it with the graphics program that I have, Art Text. You can use photoshop or any graphics program that you have. Things to keep in mind:
- Keep it small – I set the size at 50px X 50px when creating mine
- Keep it simple – as it will be really small, I suggest some initials and some colors from your blog.
- Save it as a PNG, ICO or GIF file type
Now you need the “plug-in” that will facilitate the installation of your Favicon. If you look at the graphic below, look on the left hand side to see the highlighted word “Plugins”.
Just below that is the “Add New” button. Click on that and bring up the following screen.
Type in the word “Favicon” and then click on “Search Plugins”.
The above graphic shows the result of the search. We are going to use “All in One Favicon”. (There are several plugins that you can use, but I prefer this one.) Click on “Install Now” below the title and you will get the following screen.
The above screen tells you that the plugin has been successfully installed. You now need to click on “Activate Plugin” and you should see:
Once you have the plugin activated you need to tell it which graphics to use.
In the above graphic you can see the title of the plugin (All in one Favicon) under “Settings” on the left hand side of your blog back end. Click on it.
This gives you the ability to upload your favicon to your blog. If you know the URL, enter it, or click on “Upload Favicon” to find it from your computer or some other site (photoshop, etc.)
Please note: use the field for the type of file you have. If you saved your graphic as a PNG, use the PNG field. Once entered, click on “Save Changes” and you should see:
You will notice that your favicon now appears beside your address in the address bar and it also appears at the corner of the tab!
Congratulations! You have moved one more step towards having a branded blog!
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I guide authors through the technological swamp known as social media!
I want to use this blog to talk about blogging and social media tips. I’ve learned alot of things over the last few years and I want to help authors be the best they can be! In my experience, the blogging world is an intimidating one and can be a costly one. When I think back to what my blog looked like when I ran out of money to pay my blog designer……
The blog should be part of an author’s “platform”.
What is a platform?
It is the place that you launch from with your book
Just picture that…..
In all seriousness, the author’s platform is their storefront. It represents them to their fellow authors and to their readers. It is the point of “first impression”. Would you walk into a store that was covered in graffiti, the door was hanging off it’s hinges and the windows were too big for the frames?
Using that analogy, why is it acceptable to have a messy blog filled with images that don’t fit their frames. Although I’m the worst housekeeper on the face of the earth, I do understand that I need to clean when company is coming. I’m here to help you do those little things that help you clean up you blog (and the rest of the social media platform) and make it ready for company!
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