Changing Favicon of blogger blogs made easy by Blogger in Draft

 For adding favicon in blogger blogs, earlier we have to use scripts with our own hosting for ico files. Blogger in Draft included option in Design area in Dashboard of blogger. All you have to do is create an .ico file, if you feel difficulty in creating .ico file. You can convert image file to .ico file from the site www.iconj.com.

 

Once you have converted the image file to ico file. Download it to your computer.
Now goto http://draft.blogger.com click on the link Design of your blog to which you want to add the favicon.
Click on Edit in Favicon which is on top left corner of design area.

Once you click on the Edit link, popup window will be open. There select the downloaded .ico file using browse/chose file option. Then click on Save

Now you are done.
In Blogger in Draft's it is also mentioned that later more supported files for favicon other than .ico files will be supported in future.

New Official Twitter Follow button with Followers Counter

Web developers were using various methods to add the twitter follow button with the Number of followers information. Twitter made it more easy to add follow button on your blogs or website. Twitter uses two methods for adding the follow button into your site.

• Using Javascript
• Using an iframe

We can easily embed the follow button to our blogger by adding the code in the HTML/Javascript under the Add a Gadget in blogger Dashboard.

When a visitor clicks on the follow button. A pop up window opens, which shows the recent two tweets of user and brief info about the user. On top right we can see the follow button. This is really an important and useful Resource of Twitter.
You can get the basic Follow button by providing your Twitter username and some customizing option from https://twitter.com/about/resources/followbutton
Advanced users can customize the button using the supported attributes from http://dev.twitter.com/pages/follow_button