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Adding a website icon

Finally – I figured out how to get rid of that ugly website icon. The one that just looks like a little page with the corner turned over. After some Googling, I found out that the little icon is actually called a “favicon”, short for “favorites icon”. I made a really simple, silly one using Inkscape, I didn’t really care too much what it was, I just didn’t want that ugly default one. So now it’s just a purple star on a light blue background (it should be showing at the top of the web browser right now). I saved it as a .xpm file, then converted it to .ico format using a little command line program called xpm2wico. It took me a while to figure out that for it to work, I had to name the file favicon.ico. All I had to do then was upload it to the main directory on my website. Easy peasy.

2010
01/24
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Publishing an html file

Wow.  Talk about baby steps.  I didn’t realise just how much I DIDN’T know.  All I wanted to do was put something, anything, at my shiny new domain, www.michw.com.  I call myself a geek, but I don’t think I am anywhere near reaching that status, what with never having created an .html file before.  Ever.  Let alone upload one to a server – eek!

Thanks to the world wide web, I fairly rapidly created this simple little thing:

<html>

  <head>
    Welcome to michw.com...
  </head>

  <body>
    Sorry, nothing to see here...please visit <a href="http://blog.michw.com"> my blog /:-)</a>
  </body>

</html>

Wow. I almost didn’t want to post this because I’m embarrassed at home simple it is. But hey, everyone’s gotta start somewhere, right? Next step: get it onto my server, in the right location so that it displays when someone goes to my web address. In my Bluehost server directory, I needed to put my file into /public_html. I’m not sure if that’s standard, or just Bluehost’s way of setting things up. But anyway, that’s where I had to put it. I also read somewhere that I need to name my main html file index.html or index.htm… I’m not sure why, but that seemed to work out for me. So now at least *something* comes up when people type http://michw.com. I think…

2010
01/23
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