How To Create Animated Favicons? ~ Shwenagar

Favicon is actually the icon that appears next to your Website URL in the browser address bar. A favicon is usually your blog logo. There are many free services that help to create favicons for you but most of these services use still images. I have used an animated favicon for my blog as you can see in your address bar. It actually consists of a logo and then my blog title as text. The image and text together makes a more beautiful combination. So lets jump at the tutorial and create an attractive cute favicon for your blog,

How To Create Animated Favicons?

Go To favicongenerator
And just at the bottom of the page upload your blog logo or any icon you wish to make as your favicon and also add your blog title as the scrolling text. You will find all the help at favicongenerator

3. Hit the Generate Favicon Button and you will be taken to this page,

Here you will see many images just right click the animated one and save it to your computer.
4. Now upload the image to your Picasa album by reading this post –> Store Animated Images in Blogger and Learn how to get Image URLs

How To Add Your Favicon To Blogger Now?

Go To Blogger > Design > Edit HTML
And Search For <b:skin> and just above it paste the code below,

<link href='ADD YOUR FAVICON LINK HERE' rel='icon' type='image/gif'/>

3. Replace ADD YOUR FAVICON LINK HERE with the image URL of the favicon you saved in Picasa album.

4. Save your template and you are done!

View your blog to see it in action on the address bar and tabs. Hope you liked it! Questions are always welcomed :>>