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Monday, July 5, 2010

How to change your Blogger (Blogspot) Blog Logo?


What is blogger logo or favicon?
It is a small icon that gets displayed once you open a webpage. You may find this in every site you visit. I feel you must change this logo to your choice, simply because if someone bookmarks your page, then rather than the default blogger logo, it will be your logo that is saved in their bookmarks. This is the blogger logo or favicon that we are talking about:

This post features on changing the default blogger to a blogger of your choice. You can create your own logos with Banner Maker Pro software or with Photoshop or even simply with Microsoft Paint. After you design your logo, you need to format the size to 16x16. This can easily be done with Adobe Photoshop. Once all this is done, make sure you save your picture in ".ico" format. (For example - "myicon.ico")

After your logo is ready for display, you have to upload it to some site. You may use ImageShack for uploading the picture. After you upload the picture, you will get a link to that picture. Copy that link and save it in a text file.

1. Now, go to your blogger dashboard. Navigate to "Layout>>Edit HTML".

2. Make sure you back up your template before doing any changes (don't  know click here).

3. Search for the following code </head>

4. Now, paste the following code above the line mentioned in step 3.

<link href="http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/760/ind4u.gif" rel="shortcut icon"></link>
<link href="http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/760/ind4u.gif" rel="icon"></link>

5. You may replace the above link marked in blue with your link. Save your template and have a look at your blog now.



If you need free icons, you may leave a comment here with your email id or web/blog url. And I will design a free icon for you and send it via email.

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