You may have noticed, depending on what browser you use, when you were last here, if ever, and how observant you are, that this blog has a little helicopter as its "favicon", ever since last week. I was reading someone else's blog that I like and noticed that her favicon wasn't the usual white-B-on-orange-background icon of every other Blogger page and it was instantly clear that if she could change hers, then I had to change mine. So I googled to find some code and the right place to stick it and viewed the page source of a couple of good pages that used favicons, because that's how you learn things about html and xml, by mooching, and I tried for a very short time to design my own icon and gave up on that pretty quickly, and then just decided I'd find one that I liked and steal it. Because that's how you do things on the web, by mooching.
What's so ironic about stealing a helicopter favicon? The page I stole it from is about favicons. Really - here's the post from goodbyehelicopter.com
5 comments:
Speaking of helicopters, when do I get to see a picture of you flying one??? :)
Ummm- not so much. THe only place I see the white B in the orange background is the same in Explorer and Firefox. Maybe I'm blind...
You can see favicons if you use tabbed browsing - in the tab, next to the title of the page. Or if you bookmark a page or make it a favorite, the icon will be special or generic, depending on the page, when you look at your "Favorites" or "Bookmarks" drop-down menu. With a page that's already been bookmarked, the favicon may not be refreshed unless you re-save it or deal with the cached version manually. Clearly not worth a lot of effort...
Thank you for reading, and I'm glad my blog was useful to you.
oh, and. . .
Thanks for stealing my helicopter favicon!
To this I can only say two words:
G O O D B Y E H E L I C O P T E R . . .
No more helicopter, huh?
If you need a nice favicon, let me know!
I have a few others laying around...
You can see a few more I've done at:
http://www.thefloppydisks.com
http://www.throckmortondrums.com
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