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My new favicon

Jan 21

Posted by Nkolika in blogging | No Comments

Just added a new favicon to my blog.

A Favicon is a little custom icon that appears next to a website’s URL in the address bar of a web browser. They also show up in your bookmarked sites, on the tabs in tabbed browsers, and as the icon for Internet shortcuts on your desktop or other folders in Windows.

I have been trying for ages to do that but I always got confused along the line. Since I started playing around with Photoshop and getting a grip on it, I decided to give it another shot.  I used the tips from Jennifer Apple on how to add a favicon using Photoshop. It was quite straight forward and looked so easy. I had to download the Windows Icon (ICO) file format Photoshop Plugin to export to the .ico file format from Telegraphics and I followed her instructions and viola……….
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Since I use firefox I had to clear my cache and also add the html link

<link rel=”icon” href=”/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>

to the header and index page templates of my WordPress template before it could show.  I have been trying to get it to show in Internet Explorer but no luck yet. Dunno why things are difficult with IE. Initially my blog looked good in other browsers but terribly awkward in IE, now my favicon doesn’t show up. I personally do not use it because I don’t like it, but my hubby’s stuck to it for some reason. I am sure many people love it too. Do you like it? Which web browser do you use?

Favicons make web address look cute (it sure has transformed the look of mine in my browser). There are some web address I hardly remember their names but once I see their favicons I instantly know that that is what I am looking for. I think they are great. It makes websites look more professional. Or what do you think?

This favicon generation site helps you to generate your own favicon for free. All you need todo is upload your picture. Here are some great favicons that can inspire you

I don’t know if I am very happy with it yet, I may still tweek it here and there till I get something I truly love. I am loving Photoshop more and more everyday. So many people seem to use it and they produce magnificent graphics with it. I intend to learn as much as I can about it. I will be sharing it with you as I go on. Slow and steady wins the race.

All the best as you explore.

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WordPress 2.8

Jul 16

Posted by Nkolika in blogging | 17 Comments


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It sure does feel good to be back after so long. Had to take some time off to get some things sorted out. And on coming back I found out my WordPress blog was not working quite well. It happened soon after I upgraded to the new 2.8 version. Discovered I could not load images. I contacted Host Gator technical support team and it turned out that I was not the only one.

Apparently a lot of people that upgraded to the 2.8 version have been having problems with adding images to their posts. I thought of downgrading to 2.7 but decided to do what most people said they did and that was deactivating all the plug-ins and activating them one by one. And luckily I found out the one that was the problem…………………..the category icon plug-in. It’s amazing how much help one can get from forums.

All this Internet/website/blog stuff’s so complicated and confusing that I for one would be helpless and lost without discussion forums and the great Host Gator technical support staff.

In case you are having problems with your blog, here’s a great place to get help: WordPress Support

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It is one thing to have a blog or website; it is another thing to know how to get around the technical side of it all. I must confess that after reading a lot about website creation and design, the one thing that struck home was the truth that the work only begins after one has created a website/blog.

I am thinking about redoing my website, kind of bored with the look it has thus I am slowly learning CSS (only God knows what that stands for!!!). All I know (all I am concerned about) is that it is going to make maintaining my site a lot easier. Because I used the basic HTML to design my site, I have nightmares when I think of making some changes on all the pages. But with CSS, I understand that I can make changes with just some clicks here and there. Again I am no expert, just lucky that I can find my way around the basics.

If anyone had told me that one day I would be talking about websites and blogs; I would have taken it as a joke. But as Lisa of 2 Create a Website and many other webmasters advice:

One must create a website or blog about what he/she’s passionate about.

According to them that is the only way you can get the strength to do all that needs to be done and learn all that needs to be learnt.

Have you started a blog yet? What about a website? I think you should think seriously about giving it a try if you can.

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