A Favicon is also known as a
website icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon. It is the little graphic that
displays in the top left of the browser address bar.
When you visit sites or
bookmark them, these icons will make these URLs stand out. These are “Favicons”
or “Favorite Icons”.
If you own your own web space
you can make your own and drop it into the root directory of your site
and presto you have a favicon.
If you want to know how to make
one from scratch then I suggest you take a look at:
This gives a guide on design issues and convertors to make the favicon
work in most browsers.
But what if you
have a google blogspot site?
If you have a blogger site you will see you already have a favicon it looks
something like the one above only tiny.
Well if you have your favicon ready you can still use this on your
blogger URL and it will replace the orange and white B with a logo of
your choice.
First you will need somewhere to store ion the web as you don’t get web
storage space with blogger.
Photobucket, flickr or one of the many photo sharing webs is a great
place to start. You just upload your .ico file to the site and copy the
web address in the addresss bar of your browser.
Next copy this address into the code below so it reads as:
If you have entered this information correctly this will work and if not
don’t panic. Just return to the edit html page and remove the code you
pasted in and save it again and order will be restored.
This will work with most browsers that display favicons. There are other
ways to do this using GIF files and JPEGS but using this method has
definitely produced the most consistent results for me.
