Favicons

I have posted before about favicons, but so many people have the ugly white Blogger B in the orange square next to their URL at the top of the screen that I thought I would explain again. I think this only works for Blogger, so if you have Wordpress or something else, sorry, I'm no help. I love helping people pimp out their blogs if I can. (Christian informed me that he likes snarky Erin so I'm trying harder to be less p.c. by using words like pimp.) (I don't know what p.c. stands for. I hope it's okay.) (No I don't! Snarky Erin hopes it's not okay!)

Do you see the mini seahorse next to my URL (http://ifyougiveamomamoment.blogspot.com/) at the very top of the page? And there is also a mini seahorse next to the name of my blog if you have more than one tab open in Firefox (Internet Explorer too, I think). These are called favicons. I love seeing different favicons on people's blogs, like the adorable bird at Three Bay B Chicks and the picture Lee at Perpetual Burn just put on her blog. There are two steps to creating your own favicons. I'm sending you over to the links because I certainly can't take credit. (I am HTML code stupid but I was able to figure this out.)

Go here first. Read the instructions and do what she says. I did this quite a few months ago and I had a cute little sun for a favicon. Then a few months later it stopped working. A few weeks after that, Scribbit posted a link directing people to a place that would help fix your broken favicons.

Think of the possibilities you could choose for a favicon. Kristina P., you could have a picture of a Snuggie! Brooke, you could have a candy bar! Em-cat, you could have a hooker heel! Becky, you could have a teeny tiny map of Alaska, or a jar of cumin, I mean curry! These are just a few thoughts - I'm full of them. Well, I'm full of something.

So after you do the first step, go here next. Follow those instructions (using the entire two lines of HTML code you created the first time around) and paste the entire code where it tells you to. Then you should have favicons on your blog!

Unfortunately, some people can't see these favicons. I don't know why. So if after reading this entire post you still don't know what I am talking about, it's probably because you can't see them.

Good luck! Let me know if you have any questions or problems. Or if you want me to come up with an idea of what your favicon picture should be.

*Edited to add: Some people are saying they have had a hard time in the past making this work. Momo Fali said she got hers working this morning. I can see her favicon when I pull up my drop down list, but I can't see it on the actual website yet. I know it took my husband's computer two days to see my Eiffel Tower. I know this does work, because mine has a favicon and Lee at Perpetual Burn asked me for the directions yesterday and she got hers working too. Keep trying, and if you still have problems e-mail me and we'll see if we can get it working together!

*Edited again to add: Jared is my brilliant computer friend. He just wrote this in a comment: Your web browser will cache the original favicon, sometimes for days. You can either wait before the new one will start showing up or you can clear your browser cache and temporary files and then restart your browser. Thank you Jared!

And another edit: Two people have e-mailed me, telling me that they have done what the links told them to do, and they can't see it. I have gone to their website, and I can see it! So don't give up! You can do it!