As you continue to tweak and modify the content of your web site or blog, eventually you’ll want to customize your sites favicon. For instructions on how to change your favicon for WordPress 2.5.1 click here. For instructions on how to create your own favicon, continue reading below.

What is a favicon? A favicon is the tiny 16 x 16 image that’s associated with your web page. If installed properly it will show up to the left of your web address as well as in other places like the tabs of a tabbed browser like Firefox.

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I wanted to change the TYsTIPS.com’s favicon (the tiny image associated with a web site’s name/url). It turns out that there are a lot of posts about how to do this, but the method has changed for the newest version of WordPress.org (currently version 2.5.1) so the old methods don’t work. Also, this only works if you are using WordPress.org, WordPress.com users don’t have access to the necessary files to make this change - sorry!

Here’s my generic favicon in Internet Explorer:

And here’s my generic favicon in Firefox (notice Yahoo’s nice little favicon - I’ve got favicon envy!).

Changing your favicon in WordPress 2.5.1 isn’t hard, you just have to make sure you’re following the proper directions for your version of WordPress. So, for WordPress version 2.5.1 here’s the steps:

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In this post I intend to share my user experience with StumbleUpon and answer this question: Does a StumbleUpon Campaign actually work to help drive quality traffic to your site. The short answer - NO. At least that was my experience.

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I recently joined the EntreCard community as a way to help drive traffic to my site. I assumed that I’d have ample designs to choose from for my logo during the signup process. Boy was I wrong! The best logo I could come up with through EntreCard was this:

Simply hideous. Oddly, EntreCard fully admits that their pre-designed logos are lame. So what can you do to spruce up your EntreCard logo or ad?

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TYsTIPS.com currently uses the WPTP-Chocolate theme (by wpthemesplugin), sponsored and supported by www.web-hosting-top.com. A nice feature of this theme is a very clean spot in the top left corner of the header to place a prominent 468×60 adsense banner add. Placing the add is pretty simple, once you know where to paste the adsense script.

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