"THE MONSTER CALLED FAVICON!!!"
15th of Julius, being MMXII in the Year of our Lord.
There is a minute monster in our midst. A craven creature who lurks in the webbed corners of cyberspace. This monster watches us all from nearly every location in the inter-webs; observing, lurking, calculating. It is watching thee now & there is no way to escape it's glare & stay online! This monster is called . . .
. . . the FAVICON!!!
I will tell thee where it is so thou too may stare the beast in the eye & know the Favicon for what it truly is! Look up to thy web address bar, to the left hand side. Dost thou see the little emblem? That is the Favicon! That 16 pixel by 16 pixel cretin of multicolored design! The Favicon also lurks above it's address bar lair, nesting in thy web browser tabs where it can watch us with many different eyes!
The Favicon, so named for being a Favorite Icon, is an elusive beast that is only caught by the best blog knights & website design wizards. It prowls the web like a cyber rat, evading capture by the newest blog squires & design apprentices. If thou desires the look of success that so many websites hold then thou too must pay the unknown price to this mysterious beast so that it may change it's look & wear thy insignia.
I tell thee my tale of blight & pain so that thou may assist me in my quest, if thou art strong enough. I have scoured the internet wastelands for over a week in search of the Sages of lost inter-web lore. Many sages have I found who tell me their tales of Favicon capture & display, each with their own twist on Favicon capturing techniques. However, it seems the creature has mutated in some unknown way, evading capture for my Blogger site.
It may be that the Favicon was a beloved website pet of times past but I warn thee now, the Favicon is changing into an uncontrollable Beast!!! It can evade capture from Blogger's template & layout augmenter mechanisms! It hath also eluded the barbed trap of HTML coding! I submit to thee that if this monster can not be reigned in soon, then there is little that will be able stop the beast from conquering all of the InterWebs! All of our screens will turn to this:
And there will be no space for anything else!!! BEWARE!!! AND HELP ME SAVE THE CYBER WORLD FROM ULTIMATE PERIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(To translate into a more mundane version of speech, I can't figure out why I cannot personalize my Favicon image. If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated!)
UPDATE!: I hath nearly captured the beast! Now the dreaded Favicon flickers between this website's stock insignia & my own. Victory is nearly at hand!!!
Usually the favicon is based on the parent website. That means personal and business sites give you complete control to customize it for yourself, but a lot of hosted sites (e.g. forums and blogs) are determined by the hosting company (livejournal, blogger, wordpress, or in your case blogspot). Some sites will let you attach a personal favicon, but a lot don't. There might be a way around it, but I'm guessing if there is, it'd be a lot more in depth web programing than you'd like to get into.
ReplyDeleteI could be wrong though. It happens. :P
Yeah, I've made a many attempts with the stock "Favicon uploader" & played with site's HTML coding & then went back to the "uploader". I think it's starting to come around now. Apparently it can take some time to "take" on website told me. Just sounds like more ghosts in the machine to me :-) Thanks for your insight & help friend :-)
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