Xwordpress.com» » Uncategorized http://www.xwordpress.com Guide to blogging Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:49:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How to add a favicon to your blog http://www.xwordpress.com/uncategorized/how-to-add-a-favicon-to-your-blog http://www.xwordpress.com/uncategorized/how-to-add-a-favicon-to-your-blog#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 14:17:15 +0000 solomonc http://www.xwordpress.com/?p=569 A favicon is a small image (16 x 16 pixels) that appears alongside the url address of the browser’s address bar.

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Favicons will also appear beside a browser’s “favourite” url listing when a site with favicon is bookmarked as show below:

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Creating a favicon

You can create a small image (16 x 16 pixels) using Fireworks,  Photoshop or GIMP and then use IrfanView to convert the image to .ico format. In this case, you must save the file as favicon.ico or it will not work.

Add favicon to your blog

Upload your favicon.ico file to your site’s root web directory using your FTP program or your cpanel’s File Manager. For example, if your site name is “abcsite.com, you need to place the favison.ico file inside this folder in your server.

Next, you need to place the following code between the <head></head> in your header.php file (access via WP Appearance/Editor):

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://www.yoursitenamehere.com/favicon.ico” mce_href=”http://www.yoursitenamehere.com/favicon.ico”/>

Another way to add a favicon to your blog would be to download the MaxBlogPress plugin. This plugin has several ready made favicon images for you to choose from. If  you do not like any of the ready made favicons, you can replace them with your own favicon. This can be done after you have downloaded and unzipped the plugin. You just need to  replace one of the ready-made images (in the icon folder) with your own favicon prior to FTP the plugin to your Wordpress plugin folder. Remember to  change your favicon file name to match the name of the file that you are replacing.

]]> http://www.xwordpress.com/uncategorized/how-to-add-a-favicon-to-your-blog/feed 0 Hello world! http://www.xwordpress.com/uncategorized/hello-world http://www.xwordpress.com/uncategorized/hello-world#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 14:33:51 +0000 solomonc http://xwordpress.com/?p=1 Welcome to my WordPress blog.

I have use this blog to record my experience in using Wordpress, both as my own reference as well as sharing it to the world.

I hope that my readers will benefit from my efforts so that they will find using Wordpress a pleasure rather than frustration.

The path has been laid by me and all you have to do is to follow them.

Lastly, I wish you all the success & happy blogging.

Solomonc

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