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I’m still picking up tips about blogging and running a website and one thing I learned recently was how, and why, to add a  favicon and logo to my site. I decided to post about it with the hope it will help someone else.

What is a Favicon

It’s the little picture beside the web address in your browser.

Highlight Your Brand with a Favicon

What is Favicon.ico and How to Create a Favicon Icon for Your Website

What is a favicon and why should you have a favicon for your website?

How To Create A Favicon

Free Favicons

There are all sorts of free icons and favicons out there…

Free Favicons

20 Free Favicon Sets

Lorelei Web Free Favicons

Free Christian Favicons

…but I couldn’t find any I liked, so I made my own.

Make Your Own Favicon

First I drew my picture in Paint.net (free) using a 64×64 canvas size. I then resized it to 32×32 for my logo and 16×16 for my favicon.

The favicon has to be an icon file and Paint.net doesn’t have the capabilities to save it in that format so I used Irfanview (also free) to open the 16×16 image and save it as an icon.

If you don’t want to do all that, there are some free online favicon generators you can use to create one:

Favicon Tool

Dynamic Drive Favicon Generator

GenFavicon

Favicon.cc Generator

Online Favicon Maker

Adding Your Favicon and Logo to Your Site

Next, I uploaded my images to my site and added the code. I followed these instructions to add the favicon:

How to Create a Favicon

I had a little more trouble adding my logo to the left of my title. The instructions that actually worked for me are here:

Add Your Logo to FTW Themes

I did have to adjust the margins a little and to do that I used the “Edit CSS” function of Web Developer Tools for Firefox, then copied the code into my theme’s style sheet. Firebug can also be used to edit CSS, I just haven’t tried it yet.

Voila!

Let me know what you think.

Denese

Update

I’ve added some free Christian cross favicons here:

Free Cross Favicons

I’ve added a section on President McKinley to my Free Homeschooling page.

Free Homeschooling: President McKinley

Denese

With all this snow, it’s a good time to add some lessons about winter into your studies. To help you do so, I’m compiling a list of free resources from across the web.

Free Learning Links and Activities About Snow

I will add more as time permits.

Denese

Another sunny morning, but it sure is cold! It’s supposed to get colder and snowy starting tonight, so we are making today our library day…for both of them!

It wasn’t easy, but I found a couple pictures of my husband. If you want to take a look-see, they’re on my Family Album page. I’d like to set it up a little differently but it will do for now.

I can cross one thing off my list!

Denese

It’s a beautiful morning here in the Pawpaw Holler, they’re hollerin’ for snow but the sun is out and the clouds are almost gone!

I’m still moving links off my old blog and trying to get back to regular posting.  It has calmed down around here and we’re getting back on schedule, so maybe I can get caught up.

Some things I have planned to do this week:

Online

1. Upload a picture of my husband, Lacy (if I can find one that won’t scare everyone…he is an ol’ mountain man you know).

2. Add a calendar for Townsend TN and Great Smoky Mountains free events and activities.

3. Make a photo gallery page for our nature pictures.

4. Move more free resources links, all of the Old Hermit’s sayings and my recipes off my old blog.

5. Re-do my pages.

6. Post some free resources everyday.

I’ll have some freebies for you all later.

Denese

Afternoon all, now it’s snowing!

I’ve moved some homeschool links from my old blog.

You’ll find them here:
Free Homeschooling: Picture of the Day Websites

Go get some bread and milk, you might get snowed in!

Denese

I highly recommend using Mozilla Firefox to view this site, it doesn’t look the same in Internet Explorer and I haven’t tried any of the other browsers.
I will try to fix it so it will look the same in all browsers but I may not be able to, I’m learning all this coding as I go!

Denese

Hello all!

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while, I’ve had my site offline while I redesigned it. I had a lot of errors with the other design and I never could get it to fit my browser window.

I hope you all like this one.

I’ll post some freebie links later today.

Denese

Hello all.

Is it cold at your house today? It was 10°  this morning , 14° right now. Brrrrrr!

I have moved all my gift in a jar links from my old blog. You can find them and a few more at the following link.

Gift In A Jar Recipe Links

Have a great day and try to stay warm.

Denese

Morning all.

I’m still slooowly moving links, setting up pages and sidebars. Dial-up takes forever!

In the meantime, I’ve left  my old blog up and there are tons of freebie links on it. Check it out here.

Denese