Blog adviser

Hello everyone! Today you will learn how to add a favicon to your blog. But what is favicon? I think that the picture below explains it best.


So, it's that little icon that you can see when you open a new tab, bookmark a link, search browsing history.... If you don't make your own, a standard blogger icon will appear instead. So, do you want to have a favicon? Well, here's how to make one.

Step 1
First, we have to create it. You can do it in programs like Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Picasa.... But there are also free favicon generators on the internet. Just google "favicon generator" and you will find them. Use 16*16 or 32*32 pixsels size.

Step 2
Save your icon as .gif. Go to "Picasa Web albums" (just google it), and upload you image there. View the image and copy it's URL.

Step 3
Edit your template's HTML. Find the following code:

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

Type this just after it:

<link href='*' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/x-icon'/>

Replace * with image's URL. Save the tamplate.

Step 4
Visit your blog. You should notice that your favicon has changed. If you have any problems or question, please leave a comment.

Hello dear readers!

As your blog starts to grow it very important not to use one of the standard blog themes. It's gonna look nicer and it will ad some professionalism. So let's do it, I will tell you how step by step.

Step 1
First let's find adequate template for your blog on the internet. Just type 'Free blogger templates' in google and search some, you will soon find a nice theme. I can recommend you this site, it seems OK.

Step 2
Let's download the template. There should be an icon that says 'download' somewhere by the template.

Step 3
I will explain this step for the mozilla users, but I'm sure that other will understand what to do. Go to Tools - Downloads, and a new window should open (Note: Sometimes the new window opens automatically after you make a download), and there should be your new download. Right click - Open Containing Folder. Now new window should appear, containing the template. Right click on the theme folder - Extract here. Now you should get a new file, that is not Ziped.

Step 4
Logg in to blogger.com, then go to Layout - Edit HTML. Click browse, and find the theme folder (Important: Don't open the Zip folder, but the extracted one.) Inside there should be an .xml file. Chose that one, and click upload. Before it uploads it, blogger will probably warn you that it has to delete some widgets. You can't save them, so just continue.

And that's it, your theme should be in use! If you have any questions, probblems or comments, please feel free to comment!