Tech Tidbits

Dan asked, so you all receive.

"so how did you get that old well icon to appear in the address bar?"
There are three main aspects to this:

1. Creating a .ico file
2. Storing it somewhere online
3. Linking that file to your page

1. Creating a .ico file

The easy way to do this is to go to a website that will let you give it a .jpg or .gif picture and it will return a .ico file (which is basically a 16x16 pixel version of what you submitted). Here is the site I used (I think): http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/
I am sure there are others. I am sure there are also ways to make your own. I just don't know what kind of program can save as .ico. So if you want to make your own, draw something in paint, and save it as a .jpg, and then submit it to this webiste.

2. Finding somewhere to store the .ico file online.

I used me UNC webspace (which may run out soon...I hope not). If you can get to your H:/, just drop the file in your public.html folder. Mine is called favicon.ico.

3. Linking that to your webpage.

If this HTML is over your head, just skip down a bit... In an HTML document, the entire document falls between the and tags. Inside those tags, there are two parts. One is called the head (between the and tags), and the other is called the body (between the and tags). The head contains information about the page that doesn't show up in the basic page. For example, the title of the page which shows up in the blue bar at the top of your internet browser is assigned in the head. Also, a lot of style markings go in the head. Likewise, we want out icon identified in the head.

So between the and tags, you need to insert the following tag:



Of course, replace the address in href="________" with the location of your icon. For your blog, you can find the head by editing the template. There is a lot in the head, and this tag can go anywhere, so I would just put it directly after the tag.

Here is what my Edit Template page (or at least the top of it) looks like.

Let me know if I didn't explain anything well enough...