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Slide 1: How to Add a Favicon to your blog or website •How to create a favicon free •How to host it for free •How to add it to your blog/website
Slide 2: How to create a favicon • Favicon is a special file format with .icon extension • There are lots of website that let you create them for free • Below are two sites that I use to create favicon’s for my blogs • www.genfavicon.com • www.iconj.com/generator.php
Slide 3: How to create a favicon • The first site given in lets you upload a image , crop it and adjust it a little and then generates the .ico file for you • The second site lets you upload an image and then generates a link for you to add to your blogs. They doe’s the hosting for you as well , so convenient for users who don’t have a sound technical knowledge.
Slide 4: How to host it for free • After you created the favicon you need to host it in some server • If you have your own server then you can just upload the .ico file , else you can choose a free image uploading site that lets you upload .ico files • Google pages is a good place to upload you .ico files for free
Slide 5: How to host it for free • If you are not very technically sound and then one of the best options available to you is use the free hosting provided by iconj , they lets you create the favicon and does the hosting for you as well.
Slide 6: HTML code to add the favicon • Now that you created and hosted your favicon now its time to add it to your blog. • Go to the header section of your blog and add the following code ,” link href='your url' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/xicon'/ “ • Replace ‘your url’ with the link to your hosted file and you should be done
Slide 7: Additional resources • How to add a favicon in HTML • How to add a favicon in blogspot