I'm sure there are many of you that have noticed the cute little blogger icon (aka favicon) in the address bar of your web browser . There is a fairly simple way to go about saving an image like this to your blog, and I'll share it with you today!
The first thing you need to change your blog's favicon is a favicon. There are a couple of sites that have free favicon generators. The one I used to create the favicon for my blog is the Dynamic Drive Tools website.  I like this site because it is fairly straight forward, and really easy to use.  To create your favicon, use the following steps:

1. Browse to http://tools.dyanamicdrive.com/favicon.
2. Click on the "Browse" button in the middle of the page and find the file on your computer you want to be your favicon.
3. Click on the "Create Icon" button and wait for your favicon to appear below.
4. When your favicon appears, click on "Download Favicon" and choose a location on your computer to save it.

Ok. Part 1 is complete. You have your favicon created and on your computer. Now for part 2: adding your favicon to your post.

There are 2 ways you can store your favicon on the internet. The first way is to save it to your own personal web space and link to it from there. The other way is to save the file to the blogger servers and link to it as I showed you in my previous post. When you have the favicon file saved on the internet, we are ready for part 3: updating your blog code to allow a custom favicon.

I'm going to once again refer back to a previous post. Once your template is backed up and you are staring at a big box full of code, look for this:


Just above this line paste the following lines:
<link href='[THE LOCATION OF YOUR FAVICON.ICO HERE]' rel='shortcut icon'/><link href='[THE LOCATION OF YOUR FAVICON.ICO HERE]' rel='icon'/><link href='[THE LOCATION OF YOUR FAVICON.ICO HERE]'/>

Once this code is added, just click the button, and then view your blog!

If this didn't change the icon, press ctrl+f5 on your keyboard to refresh the whole page. One issue I have found with Internet Explorer is that you have to add the site as your favorite before the favicon will show up.

I hope this works for everyone! I am not a fan of the orange blogger icon, and am very happy to have found a way to change it! As always, if you have questions please ask!