What is a Gravatar and a Favicon? In this blogpost you will get an explanation and a guide to create a gravatar and a favicon yourself!
Gravatar and Favicon
Does this sound like Greek to you?
It did to me a few months ago!
But now I know what it is, and I want to share it with you. If you have your own website(-s) and/or you like to be active on social online medias, you might find this useful.
What is a Favicon?
A Favicon (short for favorites icon) is also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon and is a small, square icon associated with a particular website or webpage.
If you go to www.musicformotherandchild.com you will see my ”own-made” Favicon just before the URL. It should look like this:
If you go to another website of mine, www.blog-ebooks.com you will see what it looks like when a side doesn’t have a Favicon (making one IS on my list!):
If you want a Favicon on your site, go to:
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/. Just follow the instructions, and upload it to your site! It’s really easy!
Gravatar, your internet picture!
On Gravatar, users can register an account based on their email address(-es), and upload an avatar(a computer user’s representation of himself/herself or alter ego, mostly as a two-dimensional icon (picture) used on Internet forums and other communities) to be associated) with the account. Gravatar plugins are available for popular blogging software; when the user posts a comment on such a blog that requires an e-mail address, the blogging software checks whether that e-mail address has an associated avatar at Gravatar. If so, the Gravatar is shown along with the comment.
At gravatar.com you can sign up for a Gravatar.com account for free!
On my blog, your gravatar will automatically be shown if you make comments to my posts like this:
Hope you found this useful!
Greetings, Claus D Jensen
Hi Claus,
Nice post. I remember you speaking about Gravatars a while back. Today I was on Tim Ferriss’ blog and he mentions if you have a gravatar, it works there. So I signed up for and created one and sure enough, it works! This Internet stuff is too fun…
Keep on keeping on.
Rob
Claus,
Now you’ve done it, given me something else to play with. Thank you! Oh and Happy Thursday!
Great information. I have a gravatar but for some reason it doesn’t show up since I updated my WordPress.
I’ve been on Gravatar and tried to fix the problem.
When I click the Submit Comment button we’ll see if I was successful.
Hi Rob, Holly and Kathy,
Thank you all so much for your comments!
And Kathy, you have a gravatar!
Clause,
I love your new hub page! Very classy and clean.
This is going to be fun!
Thank you so much, Sheila!
I’m glad you like my site!!
WOW CD,
Looks great & I love the colors.
You are really rockin & rollin
Kat~
Thank you, Kat!
Now you just need to make yourself a Gravatar!
Gravatars are really cool.. I’m gonna make one myself.
Thanks!
Hi Claus
Beautiful design. And nice to see how you enjoy being online. Looking forward to seeing you on april 14th:-)
Hi Brian! Thank you!!
It’s thanks to you that I enjoy my “online-life”!!
You introduced me to it!
I look forward to seeing you, too!
It’s YOUR energy:-)
Thank you!
But I’m really grateful that you opened my eyes to a world I didn’t know existed!
All righty,
Let’s see if this works.
Kat~
It does!!
Good work, Kat!!
Great site this http://www.clausdjensen.com and I am really pleased to see you have what I am actually looking for here and this this post is exactly what I am interested in. I shall be pleased to become a regular visitor
Hi gludgiliery,
Thank you for your visit and your comment!
I look forward to seing you here in the future!
Claus
Thank you so much for this post, Claus!
I had bookmarked another ‘how to’ blog re creating favicons and it looked so complicated that I put it in the too hard basket. Your post really simplifies the issue.
Now I just need to come up with a brilliant design…
H
Hi Hannah,
I’m glad you found the post helpful.
I’mm looking forward to see your Favicon.
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