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Changing Blogger Favicon

What's Favicon? Favicon, is also known as Favorites icon, Website icon or Bookmark icon, that appears beside your URL in your browser. It is one of the most important factor on introducing yourself, your product or company around the globe.

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You must have your own picture (JPEG, ICO, PNG & GIF Format) preferably equal dimensions on both side or simply a squareHost the picture from several sites that offer free photo hosting such as ImageShack®, Photobucket, Picasa, etc. If you want to use your profile pic in facebook, you may right click the pic and select copy image location. You can also check out some site like a Favicon Generator or host host it directly at IconJ

Sign in to your blogger account, click Layout Tab, then Edit HTML and check Expand Widget Templates

Now before anything else please back up your template by clicking on "Download Full Template" or click "Preview" to make sure you did the right thing.

Press "Ctrl F" and find the code below

After the code above, paste your link code, make sure to change "YOUR IMAGE LINK/URL", to your own link and change the type='image/jpg' to your designated icon, such as, JPEG, ICO, PNG & GIF Format.

Your code must look like this:

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Using the Drafted Blogger

Blogger that is especially made for trying out their new stuff before they release it in the original platform. Acquire the new features, functionality, and improved posting interfaces that elevates your blogging experience.

Whatever you saved, published, and layout in your Blogger, it's the same thing you do in the Blogger Draft, so you don't have to worry changing your platform, the only thing you need to do is decide what you will use. You can simply change the platform, from http://www.blogger.com/ for using the Blogger original platform and http://draft.blogger.com/ for the Blogger Draft.

Here's more info:

Blogger in Draft blog - http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/ (to see what's new)

Learning the basic HTML

The main thing you have to learn in able to tweak your blog is to learn the basic about HTML, and before I can share and teach you how to customize your Blogger.

To know the basic, here are some site where you can practice, and bring out your "technical being".

http://www.w3schools.com/html/

http://www.htmlkit.com/

All of the sites given is where you experiment, explore, discover and learn about HTML. If you're not that really techy and you're clueless, no worries, because I will share to you some tips and tricks up ahead.

Stay tuned...

Change your Blogger Templates

You can choose to avail the default template or select from a customized themes. Its your choice to make.

In any case you want to pick one, I would recommend this sites that provide a variety of templates.

When you decided to pick your desired template download it. Now, how to change your template?

As expected, login to your account and when your in your Dashboard, click the Layout then select Edit HTML, you'll be directed to the contents of your template in HTML format.

Always back up your template when editing your HTML, just click the "Download Full Template" link.

After downloading, you can now upload your selected template.

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Preview the result, if you're satisfied you can now save your template, and if you are prompt to delete your widgets, before confirming it, make sure you saved a backup for that.

If you have saved widgets, you can start adding it up manually.

You are all set to publish a post and customize the template on whatever you prefer.
Enjoy! I will be sharing additional post, to follow this up.

Creating a blog in Blogger.com

Easy?
Now create your own and start blogging - all of the following post are informations that I would share to you on blogging in Blogger.com

Definition of a Blog

Before I start sharing information, tips and tricks about Blogger and how to blog in Blogger.com, here's some of the definition in the internet on what blog is all about.

A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.

Source: Blogger

A blog (a contraction of the term "web log") is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Source: Wikipedia

Weblogs are unique in that only a weblog gives you a publication where your ideas can stand alone without interference. It gives the public writer a kind of relaxation not available in other forms.

Source: Harvard Weblogs

A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.

Source: Matisse's Glossary of Internet Terms

To make it understandable and simple, because other website, person or even in the blogosphere, they define blog in different meaning and terms. My definition will not fall into technical terms or even an objective point of view. Blog is an online journal that collaborates on what a blogger/s (writer or publisher) writes in his or her own way and perspective, with no restriction but with a moral responsibility to share the knowledge in the internet.

It may derive into different topics and ideas such as personal, professional, business, company blog, entertaining, advertising and so on, but a Blog is still your online piece of paper and pen in the World Wide Web. While a blogger is the one who writes in a blog that can be a person or group/s.