Did you know??? Blog tip Favicon

I have been fooling around a lot more with my blog lately, attempting to learn html and using my new cs5 program to get better images on the blog. I'm also taking two ecourses... one pertaining to business and the other to blogging. I have been spending a lot of time researching how to do specific things to my blog and a while back I came across a post by Wonder Forest on adding a Favicon.

So did you know that you can add a little image to replace that orange and white blogger symbol in the tab when you open your blog?

Well you can and you can personalize it too! It's called a favicon!! I know most of you have but those of you who haven't, it's pretty neat and a lot simpler than I thought.

If you look at the tabs or beside the address bar above you should be able to see my new favicon I created last night!! Can you tell what it is? I literally drew this one up myself so I am wondering if you can figure it out.

Here's the thing... it is literally this simple....
go to this site http://www.favicon.cc/
and you can either upload an image that it will transform into tiny pixels
or you can draw one out yourself in those pixel format on the site (it is a bit strange at first because it is so pixelated)!

 That's what I did last night! It did take a couple of attempts but you can see the progress up in the address bar while you create it.

Once you have something you like all you need to do is download it. *** be sure to click the blue download favicon link under preview. They have a silly ad beside it that says download (which I am sure is how they get people to click it) and it will install something else on your computer... I made that mistake... opps.

Then just go to your layout section on blogger and notices in the top left  it has a place to add your favicon. Upload the image there and save arrangement! I still don't see a change on my computer but it says that it can take anywhere from 24 to 48 hours to do so. However my sister can see it on her computer... so can you see it???

Did you know? Prove your NOT a Robot

I have been thinking of throwing out a new type of post where I share with you something I recently figured out that I didn't know anything about. These things may be obvious to some of you but I wish someone would have posted about it instead of me spending endless hours discovering it.

So did you know that you can turn off that annoying comment word verification when someone tries to comment on your blog? 

Maybe you did and you like that little "Prove your not a Robot" box. If so... ignore what I have to say about it because this is my personal opinion and you might have a real good reason it is still on. 

For those of you who still don't realize what I am talking about... basically when you comment on someone who has this option turned on you will submit your comment only to find that you have to cross your eyes to determine a alien language and attempt to type it into the box to confirm the comment. Let me tell you... I really hate this but some of the blogs I love I will take the time to do this because I love you! 

Lately it seems that it has gotten more blurry or maybe my sight is getting worse so I try to attempt typing this silly word/phrase/number in at least 3 times. Sometimes my computer just erases the comment after multiple attempts... and I honestly give up because I forget what I said and the comment is usually more than a sentence long. 

Lastly I want to say this. I turned off my word verification thing a while back and have noticed more comments. Most of those comments are longer too... which is nice because you can actually have a convo with your readers. I was a little worried about someone writing something I didn't like but that hasn't happened yet. 

If your worried about that or spam... you can always choose to approve you comments before they post or make it where the person has to be a member of your blog to post.

All of these options can be changed by going to Settings and underneath that POSTS AND COMMENTS

Be sure to read all of your options there because you can even do other really neat things. So be sure if you want to get rid of that annoying box and make some of your readers a little less stressed.... make sure you selected NO for the Show Word Verification question.

So what do you think... useful? or not? Do you have a good reason for having this option on?  Whats your opinion should I keep doing the Did you know posts?