It’s called a favicon!
I didn’t even know there was a word for this thing until this afternoon. It’s the little icon up there in your browser next to the URL. I drew it myself using an online favicon editor. If I could figure out how to embed a hyperlink, I’d do that, but here’s where I did it:
http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/
I’m sure embedding links is easy enough, and I’ll be putting that on my list of things to learn. I’ve found that most of this blog stuff isn’t difficult — the hard part is finding the info and trying it out the first time. Once I found the favicon information, the whole process took about fifteen minutes.
Yes, my icon is a little lame, and eventually I’ll get something more convincing. But it’s very cool for now and I’m proud to the point of smugness that I’ve figured this out.
So… one more victory for which I await your congratulations.
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May 4, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Random Kath
Wow! That’s great! And your little favicon is very cool and does fit the theme of your blog. See, I learn something new every day . . .
May 4, 2008 at 11:47 pm
admin
The favicon editor is fun to play with, too. In a kind of remember-being-a-six-year-old kind of way.
May 5, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Random Kath
OK, now you have to tell me what the little bookmark-y things are, because I’ve never used those . . .
May 5, 2008 at 11:52 pm
admin
The bookmarky things are for participating in social bookmarking sites like digg and stumbleupon… I have much to learn about how these work. I don’t think I’ve posted anything digg-worthy yet, but I figured the next step in learning is to add the icons and begin to play with them a bit.
We’ll see…