:: changing the favicon ::

I hope you know what a tab is. 

If you don't, google it. Or just keep reading because you know I'm going to explain it to you anyway.

This is a tab.

Notice the picture on the tab, in the left hand corner. That's a favicon. In this case it's Blogger's "B".

You'll notice that my favicon is like the Facebook sign for "like" but...it has a bandage on it. Don't ask me why. It's probably because I was trying something out with a knife and it didn't end well. I don't have a picture of it or I would display it here, but that's ok since I'll probably be changing it soon (as well as this blog...but don't worry that won't be for a while).

Anyway, so yes, that is the favicon. Here's how to change it:

Before: Blogger's "B" symbol which is really unattractive, but it does scream "Blogger" to me, for better or for worse.

After: your own personalized picture. It has to be 100 x 100 but if you know what you want (e.g. a picture of a bird), all you have to do is google it along with "100 x 100" like so:

It should pull something up. If you liked the picture, you might want to put it on for your favicon. If you don't, you won't.

OK, OK, so. The moment you've been waiting for: THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT, FINALLY.

Go to Blogger Dashboard > Layout > Favicon > Edit > Browse

Hopefully you will have downloaded your picture, right? If not, this is a good time to do it. 

Here are some pictures, to help those of you who are lost. 

1. Go to "Layout" - in the pic below, it should be the orange part that says LAYOUT.

2. Find the bar that says "Favicon" (highlighted in blue below). Then click "Edit" (highlighted in red below).

3. Browse for whatever picture you've saved. If you don't know how to save a picture, either contact me and I'll get you a personal tutorial (whoo whoo) or you can just google "how to save a picture on the internet" or something along those lines. I'm sure you'll be fine.

OK, this is kind of a confusing picture. Let me go through it really quickly, so you'll understand all the arrows and such. The numbers belong with the arrows, so look at a number and then an arrow in the picture or vice versa.

1. notice that I highlighted the "less than 100KB". I'm not going to explain what "KB" stands for or why it's important to have less than 100, but for now just assume I know what I'm talking about (which I only sort of do). Oh and yes, you can have 100. Just not 101 or over.
2. Click on this button ("Browse") to go through all the files you've saved on your computer. If you haven't saved your picture, you can't upload it to Blogger. Also if it's more than 100KB...
3. Then click save and you should be good. 

And the red arrow is just to point out that if you haven't selected a file, it won't do anything (obviously). That little yellow bar only popped up because I had my mouse over it long enough for it to think I was confused or something... it's that "or something" that always gets me. ;)

If you have any more questions, feel free to drop us a comment! I'd love to hear from you and I have lots of time so I can get back to you relatively quickly and answer your questions more specifically than, say, Google could.

One last, mostly important, thing: your favicon will not show up for at least another day or two. For a while, I wondered if it was another Blogger glitch, but I think it's just because it takes time to get it up there and change the blog code. If you're worried that yours won't ever get on, or it hasn't shown up and it's been a couple days/weeks, I should say if it's been a couple days, give it a few more, and if it's been a couple weeks? I'm not sure I can fix your problem other than make sure you've actually uploaded your picture or that the picture is actually 100 x 100 or smaller. If yours is true to all of this, you probably need to tell Blogger.

And if that has helped any, at all, drop a comment and tell me. I want to know how worth it this blog is. Although really, I'm just doing it for fun, so has it been worth it? Don't bother answering that question, but I wouldn't mind knowing!

Thanks for reading, congrats for sticking it out and reading through to the end! You're great and here's a medal.

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