One easy way to make a blog more visible is to add a favicon.
A favicon makes a blog easy to find, in a typical browser window, with lots of open tabs. Adding a favicon is now just a matter of using one more dashboard wizard.
Not so long ago, you would require a pair of files, hosted by a special (non Blogger) service - then you would edit the template, to add the URLs of the hosted files.
Now, Blogger supplies the "Configure Favicon" wizard - and hosts the file for us.
There's the favicon, for this blog.
You'll use the standard file selection wizard, that's provided on your computer - and should be able to choose an icon on your computer ("Upload") or elsewhere ("From this blog" / "From a URL").
Start from the "Favicon" wizard, on the dashboard Layout page - and click "Edit".
Use "Configure Favicon". Click on the "Choose File" button, and choose a file.
Click "Save". Then clear cache and restart the browser - and look at your blog.
There's my blog.
The icon is tiny - so look carefully.
Remember that "Configure Favicon", like many Blogger dashboard wizards, is subject to cookie and script filters.
You will still require a suitable file, as your favicon.
You have to design a distinctive image, to start - that can be seen easily at a tiny 16 x 16 pixels size. But once you have a suitable icon, in a file, you just add the file to your blog.
Not everything in Blogger is this easy. Don't you wish it was?
A favicon is an easy way to make a #Blogger blog distinctive, and easy to spot in a browser with multiple open tabs.
#Blogger now makes it easy for us to add a favicon to our blogs - with one more wizard, on the dashboard "Layout" page.
A favicon makes a blog easy to find, in a typical browser window, with lots of open tabs. Adding a favicon is now just a matter of using one more dashboard wizard.
Not so long ago, you would require a pair of files, hosted by a special (non Blogger) service - then you would edit the template, to add the URLs of the hosted files.
Now, Blogger supplies the "Configure Favicon" wizard - and hosts the file for us.
You'll use the standard file selection wizard, that's provided on your computer - and should be able to choose an icon on your computer ("Upload") or elsewhere ("From this blog" / "From a URL").
Click "Save". Then clear cache and restart the browser - and look at your blog.
Remember that "Configure Favicon", like many Blogger dashboard wizards, is subject to cookie and script filters.
You will still require a suitable file, as your favicon.
Please use a square image that's less than 100KB.
You have to design a distinctive image, to start - that can be seen easily at a tiny 16 x 16 pixels size. But once you have a suitable icon, in a file, you just add the file to your blog.
Not everything in Blogger is this easy. Don't you wish it was?
A favicon is an easy way to make a #Blogger blog distinctive, and easy to spot in a browser with multiple open tabs.
#Blogger now makes it easy for us to add a favicon to our blogs - with one more wizard, on the dashboard "Layout" page.
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