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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

http://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

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

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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Deciding for wordpress theme

October 24, 2007 By: croblogger Category: Me talking, My evolution 1 Comment →

Finding a perfect wordpress theme is almost impossible. I did a lot of researching on the web in order to find the theme that best suits my needs. I visited literally tons of sites with wordpress theme, and seen and tried even more themes. Firstly, I was looking themes with art design and complicated themes with more columns and other features. But then I changed my minds and decided for a simple but very nice, and easy to customize theme called prosumer. I find it after really long quest, I hope it will serve me with succes for a long period.

Also I decided in what direction to go with this blog. After a lot of thinking, I decided to use this blog as a place where I will post about things I find interesting enough to be published, I will also write my opinions and thoughts about what is on my mind. You will also have the chance to see my evolution as a blogger, cause I will write about my blog’s progress. You will have the chance to hear about my other projects, how am I developing them. So probably it will contain some blogging tips and other resources for bloggers, like making money. This will also be my main blog that will provide info about my other blogs that I will make.

I am simultaneously preparing my other blog, which will be about Arsenal, probably the best team in the world. I imagine it to be a place for all football lovers, especially Arsenal lovers with updated news (more…)

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My first money maker

October 11, 2007 By: croblogger Category: My evolution 2 Comments →

I have been working on my blog a little, mostly on visual part. I am searching for new and interesting plugins and widgets to put on my blog, which took me a lot of time. I am still new to wordpress so all this is very exciting and interesting for me. I will write later what did I do and where did I find all this stuff for my blog.

But let’s get back to the basic topic of this blog, making money online.

Since this blog is still a work in progress there isn’t much possibilities to monetize your blog. Later with your help and support my dear readers when this blog get’s so much needed treffic I will use other and more lucrative options to make money.

I have chosen my first moneymaker to be famous Google Adsense which you can already see here in the post. For those who are not familiar with this advertising network here is a little explanation.

Google Adsense is an ad program that let’s you make money when someone clicks on ad that it’s on your web site or blog, these ads can be text, image and more recently video format ads. These type of ads are based on per-click basis. You can also use type that is based on per-thousand-impressions but in order to use this type of monetization you have have a blog or web site with very high traffic.

This is basic explanation of Google Adsense so anyone can understand, but i will soon write more about this service and how to customize it. This is in my opinion the best thing to start with because it is very easy and intuitive for managing.

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