Archive for April, 2007
How to add or change the bookmark image for your website
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
3 months blogging, 4 important things I’ve learned so far
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.
