Adding Favicon to your blog

August 23, 2009

Favicons are icons that get displayed in your browser's address bar .
These are very popular now a days.This can be set in your blog too and can be done very easily by following this post.

Favicons are useful for branding your blog and also gives it a professional look.For example check your address bar for this blog's favicon.


Firstly design a favicon for your blog/site then upload it to any free image hosting site like (gigaimage,pict,imageshack) ,get the direct link of it.

Now log in to your blogger account > Layout > Edit HTML.

Now copy below code and change "your image link" to direct link of your image(favicon) and paste the code in head region(between <head> to </head> of blog's template.



<link href="http://your image link" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon"></link>


After adding code ,save template and you can see your favicon in address bar.

---->You can upload(use) your image in formats like .png,.jpg but usually favicons are used in .ico fromat.You can change your image to .ico (icon format ) here or simply use it in its existing format.

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