While waiting for the Blogger redesign announced a couple of months ago, the users are still treated with some small updates. I spotted one of them earlier today; frankly, it’s pretty hard to miss, since it sits in the middle of the ‘Design’ tab: a newly-introduced control for the blog favicon!
There were solutions to replace the default Blogger favicon before, but they required more technical knowledge to edit the HTML template, as well as a dedicated online space to store the file. The built-in feature is much more user-friendly: you just need to upload an .ico file and Blogger will take care or the details. It would be nice if we could use a .png image, but that’s not an option, probably because of compatibility issues with Internet Explorer.
Like most new features, it’s currently available only with Blogger in draft. I already uploaded a favicon to try the feature out – I made one about a year ago, but never got around to upload it and to customize the template. It’s not showing up on the web for now – hopefully I don’t need to create a favicon the old fashion way, with support for 8-Bit colors! But Google Reader recognizes it in the sidebar, so maybe it will be picked up in the browsers soon.
3 comments:
Thanks. I think a lot of people will be very pleased to hear about this. It make adding the favicon very simple :)
I see your favicon in my browser. I uploaded mine last night and don't see it displaying yet.
Hi Ms. Ileane!
Thanks for stopping by and commenting! :)
I don't see your favicon either, Louis. It's probably something related to the caching of the icons either on our computers or on Blogger's servers.
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