Posted by ljmacphee on April 30, 2007 under HTML, blogger, blogger template, gimp, graphics, hack your template, how to, osx | 
The image you see next to the website URL or in your bookmarks menu is called ‘favicon.ico’.
If you are hosting your website on your own server, just add a 16×16 pixel ‘favicon.ico’ file and a 32×32 pixel ‘largefavicon.ico’ file to the top directory. This is the same directory your index.html page for the site is kept.
If you are hosting your website on blogger or another service where you do not have access to the main directory you have to host your favicon.ico image file where ever you host your other website images.
Then add the following two lines to the html files on your site. These lines go in the <head> section of each file. If you are on blogger are using another blog type set up just edit the main html file for your site. { On blogger go to Layout->Edit HTML and put the two lines under the line <head> }.
Now edit these two lines so the path is where your favicon.ico is kept:
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://imagehosting.com/favicon.ico” />
<link rel=”icon” href=”http://imagehosting.com/favicon.ico” />
To create your favicon.ico file you can use your favorite photo editor. I use Gimp. Create the icon you want and save it as a 16×16 pixel png file. After you have created and saved the file, change the file name from favicon.png to favicon.ico.
More information:
What is favicon.ico?
How to Make Favicon | Macinstruct
Posted by ljmacphee on April 29, 2007 under blogging |
1) Make a list of topics to discuss that has as many items as days you intend to post in a year. Even though you think you have tons to talk about you’ll hit spots where you can’t think of anything. Do this before your first post.
2) Name your posts carefully. That is the name of the file, if you change it, you’ll break all your incoming links to that article.
3) If you host on blogger, or other free services there are many things you won’t be able to get under the hood and do. It might be better to start on a paid hosting service.
4) Watch your stats, especially the search terms that lead people to your site that you don’t cover. Write articles on those subjects so next time someone looks, he will find it at your site.
Posted by ljmacphee on April 23, 2007 under blogger, blogger template, hack your template, how to, wordpress |
I added AdSense ads inside the posts of two blogs that have not had a high click through rate. In a month or so I’ll come back to this post and let you all know if it makes a difference. Google AdSense limits you to 3 ads per page so you’ll have to knock off some of those other ads if you are going to do this.
1) Go to template -> Edit HTML -> check expand Widgets
2) Find the line: <p class=’post-footer-line post-footer-line-3′ />
3) Add <div id=’ads’></div> on the next line
4) Go to AdSense and create your ad text
5) Remove all > and replace them with >
6) Remove all < and replace them with <
7) Paste the new ad text between <div id=’ads’> ad text goes here </div>
For more information:
Blogcrowds, Google Adsense in Blogger Beta XML Update
Posted by ljmacphee on April 19, 2007 under HTML, blogger, blogger template, how to |
Make it easy for people to add your blog to their rss feeds.
The rss feed for your blogger site is:
http://yourblogurl.com/rss.xml
The Google atom feed for your blogger site is:
http://yourblogurl.com/atom.xml
Test them by putting the url in your browser - you should see the xml feed or depending on your browser and settings an offer to add your feed to your current list of feeds.
If you are using wordpress your site feed is:
feed://http//yoursite.com/wordpress2/feed/
You can get copies of the standard feed icon here:
Feed icons
To make the link for your users:
<http://yourblogurl.com/rss.xml”><img src=”http://url_you_store_images.com/feed-icon-14×14.png”></a>
If you just want to add an ‘add to Google; button then Add to Google Button will write the code for the link and add the Google icon to your link for you.
These links can be added to a new ‘Link Widget’ in your blog Template.