Blogging Tips: Everyone Favicon (Or: what's the icon next to your URL?)

Is there anyone out there who never saw an icon like this before? When you have your own blog and haven't generated the icon yet, it does look like this:

Even when this little icon appears in the browser address bar I like to generate it to have my own, personalised icon.

Google is my best friend (and your'r too I guess ;)) when I want to try something new and don't know where to look for it. After a while I found this homepage.

For those of you who might need a little explanation, here we go:

First: Decide what kind of icon you want. Well for me it was pretty easy, I wanted to have a little Jay Park looking all cute and smexy next to my URL. At least it's cute...

On Favicon you have the opportunity to make your own icon by creating own, but to be honest that sounds pretty tough. If you aren't into nerdy pixel things then you should have a look at the "Import Image" tab where you can upload an existing photo.
Keep in mind your picture will be shrinked to a little icon (16x16 pixels to be exact), so you shouldn't chose on with plenty of details on it (no smexy-Jay-with-honey-abs-icon...). Try different pictures to get a feeling for the result.

Lovely Jay looks like this:

Yes, you can't recognise him, but when you take a look at the browser's address the outcome is already reviewable.
Second: All you have to do know is clicking on the download button under your photo and a save box pops up.

Third: Again blogger makes it easy to integrate this toy to your blog. Go on the "Layout" page and upload your icon (make sure you know where you saved it ;)).

Sometimes it takes some hours until you can see you icon, you can either wait, use a different browser or clear your cache.

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