Fav Icon Dimensions

Your Fav Icon, (now readily available in Blogger) is part of your corporate image. At least it helps differentiate your site in the tabs bar.

Tips are:- that you should make the Fav Icon Pic small in size and KB (Kilobytes), it should be colorful and if possible totally unique. Something that is your own design, a LOGO if you will.

All the top sites have their logo in their Fav Icon. It is especially important if you have a Blogger blog, because otherwise, you will have to use one of the default ones that Google provide. I know they look OK, but they say Google Blogger, not you.

You can take any image and re-size and crop it to make your own Fav Icon, with most picture editors available. I have even done it with PicNik.com which is an online free picture editor suite.

I have seen Fav Icons of all sizes, but the standard seems to be 16 x 16 pixels and 100 KB or less in size.

One of the best places that I have found for creating your Fav Icon is http://www.favicongenerator.com They show and tell you more info on what dimensions qualify for use as a Fav Icon.

You just need to find a totally square picture that you want to use, the square part should be easy as most digital pictures are already perfectly square.


A tip for you is, that if you find the Fav Icon Generator complains that the picture is not perfectly square. All you need to do is to crop it slightly. This should bring the picture into a perfect square.

You will have to use the trial and error method if you run into problems, but look at it this way, it helps you learn those skills better, so every cloud has a silver lining!

The one thing I found most awkward was to find words or symbols small enough to still be clearly readable, Like when I was creating a Fav Icon for my F1 blog!


By far the best advice I can give you to make this real easy, is to just choose an icon pic or symbol, (or just a plain color square that stands out), something like a human figure in a pose or a flower or shape design. (Like a green triangle within a red circle, something simple).

When you become more proficient at creating these little graphic master pieces, you can spend more time and create something unique to you. Otherwise, why not splash a bit of cash and get a professional graphics designer to make one for you?



Good places to find these graphics designers are places like Elance.com and Rent-a-coder.com (now vWorker.com (Meaning Virtual Worker)).



Here is an example of one I made. It started out as a large normal size gold background. I took it into Fav Icon, rotated it and reduced it by just making it into a Fav Icon with the generator, without doing anything else to it at that point.

This gave me the size 16 x 16 pixels and less than 100kb.


Next I uploaded it to PicNik and added text AG for AndyGold. I had to mess around with different fonts to see which looked best. I was able to zoom in to place and examine the text.


Next I zoomed out to check on the appearance; I was happy and saved it back to my PC for later uploading via the Fav Icon tool widget in Design on Blogger! All done!

AndyGold.
http://www.Websites-Make-Money.com

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Blogging Bites Intro

This Blogging Bites Blog is formally a Squidoo Lens called HowSquidooYouDo, I've moved over to Blogger for Bloggers better features and better integration with other applications. Blogger is better!


Blogging Bites is about the little things that I have learned to do with blogging. When I didn't know how to do these things, it was so hard to know even what to look for or how to format or ask the questions via the search engines.

I used to ask questions like; 'How do you put email on blogs?' Now I realize how stupid that question must have sounded and how inaccurately it described what I was trying to ask. I was trying to ask; -

How do you capture email addresses from people that visit your blog?
(I'll be covering that subject later this summer 2011, I am still transferring Squid Lenses to Blogger at present).

Its called Email Capture! Doh. It may sound stupid now, but to a newbie, things like this are difficult. They say, the only stupid question, is the question you don't ask! But then, how can you ask a question, if you don't know what it is you need to ask, or how to format that question.

On another issue, I have discovered and use many other types of blogging platforms now. I used to post about Hub Pages and Blogger on Squidoo too.

So, not only by way of an update to the blog, but also because of the fact that Squidoo themselves, have tightened their rules about affiliate maketers using Squidoo to make money with their blog. I think they have gone over the top, since this was always a reason people started Squidoo Lenses!

The basic Idea was to make money from your blog by selling products from sites like eBay and Amazon and to be able to raise money for a charity of your choice too if that was your desire. Basically, all I get now from Squidoo, is a policy message whenever I try post or update an old post!

I'm lucky, in that I only have about a bakers-dozen of Lenses at Squidoo. A friend of mine has over 50 Lenses and I do know that many people have many hundreds of Lenses in some cases. I hope they have some sort of special deal or better treatment than I am getting. Since I have had no direct response to emails where I've asked what's going on? No answers, just default pages about terms and conditions.

Why is it that my 13 Lenses, were OK for several years, climbing the ranks of Squidoo, have suddenly become non-publishable? I don't get it! My friend who I mentioned, has literally the same similar blog as me, same topic, different stories of-course, all similar tags and categories. Yet their site was removed, or 'unpublished' as Squidoo say. Its a bit like a Google Slap isn't it.

Anyway, I expect to get my lenses 'unpublished' anytime soon, so I'm moving all my Lenses over to the more powerful and better by far;- Blogger!

Andy..