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Favicon Back in June last year, the Blogger team enabled Blogger users to upload their own favicon to replace the default Blogger icon. Initially favicons could only be uploaded if they had been converted into .ico format, though it's now possible to upload a square-shaped favicon in .png.gif or .jpg format as long as the file size is below 100kb. I prefer to use this built-in feature instead of the methods I'd previously used to add favicons to my Blogger sites, particularly as the icon is hosted on the root of our domain (*.blogspot.com/favicon.ico or custom-domain.com/favicon.ico). Since I have updated my icon as part of updating my Blogger template , I've documented my method (and troubleshooting) for others who are updating their Blogger templates. Creating your favicon To replace the default Blogger favicon with your own, you will need a square image (or favicon) which is at least 16x16px and under 100kb in size. I opted for a 100x100px .png image o...

As many of you may have noticed, I've not been actively using Blogger for some time due to illness and maternity leave. So many updates have happened in my absence and until now I have barely had time to update my own sites. Looking through all of Blogger's recent updates and settings, I've realized there are lots of tweaks I need to perform to update this site. Since I haven't already written about most of these Blogger customizations, I'll be documenting my progress for anyone else wishing to update their sites to use Blogger's new features over the next few days. Here is a list of my updates so far (which will be updated periodically as the posts are published). As I document my progress, I'll link these up to their relevant posts: Uploading a custom favicon Adding a Google+ badge Adding Google+ buttons to blog posts Note : As yet, I've chosen not to upgrade my whole template to the new interface. While I do plan to do this in the future, I...