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Three steps to make your own favicon

October 28, 2007 By: croblogger Category: My evolution, blogging tips 1 Comment →

First let’s get to know something about favicon. Favicon is short for favorites icon, also know as web site, a page icon or urlicon and it is located in front of the address in the address bar. You can also see it on tabs in your browser and in your favorites or bookmarks. For example this is how my address should look like in most browser

Favicon za posthttp://www.croblogger.com.

Why is good to have your own special favicon. That’s easy, it gives your blog something special and unique so you can stand out from the crowd. Lots of people have many bookmarks in their bookmarks folder or favorites in favorites folder so this is right stuff for you. Why? Because in the crowded favorites folder is where your favicon comes in. If you have some nice favicon you can stand out from the crowd and it will give you more traffic.

In first step you need to create your favicon in any editor like paint, Photoshop or similar. Just make 16×16 or 32×32 on and save it as favicon.ico or even better go to this favicon maker where you can make your favicon from every picture you want. There you can even make an animated favicon like mine and you can even put text to scroll with your favicon.

OK, I assume you finished the first step so let’s go to the second one. Now upload it to on your server into the root directory of your site. Now you just need to add the following HTML code inside <head> … </head> section of your web page. The code is

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico” >

and that’s it.

If you want, you can play a little more with it. If you want your favicon to be animated like mine, just upload your gif formatted icon and put this code

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico”>

<link rel=”icon” href=”animated_favicon1.gif” type=”image/gif” >

this is the way if you made animated icon with favicon maker from the link earlier in the text, you can also write instead of animated_favicon1.gif the name of your icon but don’t forget to put .gif behind the name.

If you want you can also check your favicon to make sure you made it right. Go check it with favicon validator.

And the third and final step is to go to your website and enjoy your masterpiece.

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Use Google Aps with your blog domain

October 26, 2007 By: croblogger Category: My evolution, blogging tips No Comments →

For all of you who have your own domain, this is the right stuff for you. Are you tired of managing your mail through cpanel and similar applications. I don’t know about you, but for me this process is not easy or user friendly at all. In my case I have to log in to my account and then I have the option to choose to read mail between Horde and Squirrel mail. These are all good mail readers, but since I was using and still am famous Gmail, it just wasn’t enough for me. I have several gmail accounts because it is very easy to use and have a lot of features.
For start, gmail is absolutely free, you will never have to worry about how many free space is in your inbox because it offers at the moment more than 4,5 GB of memory to put all your messages, pictures or whatever you like. The interface is available in 40 languages: US and UK English, simplified and traditional Chinese, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. You can sign up for Gmail here

With your domain you can use many applications like Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Start Page, Google Docs and Page Creator, and all of these are part of Google Aps. Google Aps are ideal for family and groups, small businesses or large enterprises.

You can choose between Standard Edition and Premium Edition. Of course Premium Edition is better because it offers more options and features. I am using the free version for now, because for my needs this is enough. Maybe one day I take the Premium Edition when my blog get’s bigger and maybe my network. But for larger organizations I recommend Premium.

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