To have a favicon for your own blog, you'll first need to create an icon which is 16x16 pixels in size, and save this as a .ico file to your computer. I used Gimp to create my favicon (which is a free program with most of the functionality of Photoshop), though you could also use paint or any other graphics creation program.
Alternatively, you could visit one of these sites which have pre-made favicons available for free download:
Once you have your favicon, you'll need to upload this to a hosting account. If you already have a hosting account somewhere, you can upload it there. Free image hosting for ico files is available at Ripway (30gb space), and also at MyFavatar (registration required). Be sure to make a note of the exact URL of your favicon when you upload it!Now, you'll need to add the following code to your Blogger template between the <head> and </head> tags (Change the code in red to reflect the URL of your favicon):
<link href='http://imagehost.com/yourfavicon.ico' rel='shortcut icon'/> <link href='http://imagehost.com/yourfavicon.ico' rel='icon'/>The easiest way to do this is to search for </head> in your template HTML and insert the code just before this tag.
Now save your template and view your blog. You should now see your favicon appear in the address bar!
If you are using Internet Explorer, you will need to bookmark your blog before the icon will be seen. You may also need to refresh the page/close the window before your icon will appear (a rather unfortunate glitch in IE, and yet another reason to recommend Firefox!). But be assured that it will appear! Also, when you bookmark your blog (or indeed any other website featuring a favicon), the icon will appear in your favorites list beside the site title.
Having a favicon for your blog enhances your blog's branding and identity, and is also quite fun! If you have created a favicon which you would like to share, please let me know as I will shortly be posting a set of favicons here for free download.
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16 Comments:
Thank you SO MUCH for posting this!
I had wanted to put my own icon on my blogs but everyone else had tutorials that were talking about PHP files & other things that made it seem impossible.
This was so easy! It took 2 seconds, LOL.
THANK YOU!
Thanks Amanda! That was so easy. I just took a jpeg image, uploaded it at fileden.com and then replaced the URL that fileden created with the generic one in the code you provided. Took all of two minutes!
-Kris
www.forgeflyer.com
ThanX Amanda, your blog and your hints are greaeaeat!
There is a very nice service called IconJ.com: http://www.iconj.com/index.php
It's a favicon generator/hosting service, it takes two minutes to get your code.
Your site is very useful, thank you very much!
A small request, I have changed my favicon and it seems to successfully display it as well. But when i use the firefox add-on "Google icon", In the search results displayed, it still shows up as the blogger default icon. Is this because of the root host definition thing ? I host my blog with blogger but publish it with my own domain name. Have a look at http://glog.kaushikgopal.com/ and http://blog.kaushikgopal.com/, if you can find the time. Cheers and keep up the great work
Thanx for the code..i tried another code but this one only worked.
And mozilla firefox is the best to check.
Thanx to GIMP and Google pages too
http://userend.blogspot.com/
Thank you! I tried directions from many others but your's were the only ones that worked! Thanks!
so simple ....just did that.
Thanks
why now my own favicon on all my blogger's blog disappeared? could someone help me... thanks..
Thank you so much. I tried several different places, and your instructions are what helped me accomplish what I wanted.
Nice trick, I will do that
Thank u very much... Two thumbs up for you :)
Thank you for the links to host the favicon and the trick.
Hey, that's a really cool trick!! Thanks for sharing!
Thank You Very Much it's working :) on my blog too
http://sudhirsunil.blogspot.com/
Super Experiance about the Domain name registration..I am registered My website Domain name in the site tucktail..
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