A Very Easy Way to get a Favicon

I always wanted a Favicon (which stands for Favorites Icon), for my blog. It's the cute little icon you see next to a website's name. But I never knew how to go about getting one.

I did some research on it. I read a few posts on other people's blogs on how to do it. I was still lost. I'm not very good with html codes. I get nervous messing around with my template too much. And I have no clue how to unzip a zipped file. Which is all things you had to do according to what I read on how to get a Favicon. (By the way if anyone can explain unzipping files, that would be cool.)

After trying all that, I found a website that makes it very simple. It's Free Favicon Generator. You can either make one from one of your own pictures, or you can browse their gallery and use one of theirs. There are other websites that do the same thing, but they require you to download the file, save it, open it, etc. I could not figure out how to get it to work. With the Free Favicon Generator all you had to do was pick your favicon and then they give you the code to put in your blog.

All you have to do it copy and paste the code they give you and put it directly under the head tag in your template. Save template and you have your favicon! It was so easy, even I could do it. I had a heart, but just changed it to an "S" for STAY AT HOME MOM, or Sue for my name. I guess I'll keep that for now. Do you like it?

If you want a favicon for your blog visit this website, it's a very easy way to get one for your blog!

Happy Blogoversary to Me!

Today is STAY AT HOME MOM'S 6 month Blogoversary! I started this blog back on January 17, 2008.

In some ways it doesn't seem that long ago and in other ways it seems longer. I've learned a lot in the past 6 months. From the first days of just trying to set my blog up. Dealing with html (which I had no clue about), RSS Feeds, and just getting things to work right!

Now things run a little smoother, for the most part and I hope to continue blogging. I look forward to another 6 months when I can celebrate my One Year Blogoversary! Thanks all my new online friends for making STAY AT HOME MOM's first 6 months fun!

In honor of my 6 month blogoversary here is my TOP 6 Posts (according to me and one's I still get hits on.) Check out some of these posts if you already haven't. And thanks again for all your support!

1.Washing Your Shower Curtain Liner

2.The Spaghetti Stain Versus the Plastic Container

3.Freeze Your Bananas

4.My Family'sTrip to Disney World (Part I)

5.My Family'sTrip to Disney World (Part II)

6.How To Get Water Out of Ears

Blogging Just Got Harder

(pic. from camping trip -last summer)



Oh no! Today is my kids last day of school! Not even a full day. My son gets out at 11:30, and my daughter gets out at 12:30. Where did the year go? It went by so fast! I can't believe my son is going into 7th grade next year! And my daughter will be going into 3rd.

One thing that has dawned on me the past couple of days is that it's going to be harder to do my "Blogging Thing," over the summer. I'm not complaining to a point, because I love Summer. It's my favorite season of the year. I love the hot weather, doing outdoor activities and spending time with my kids.

Since I started this blog back in January I have spent a lot of time doing all the things that go with blogging. Probably too much time! Between doing stuff on Entrecard, MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, SocialSpark, to name a few, and actually writing the posts on my blog! I spend a lot of time doing all this.

Now that the kids will be out of school, I think that is about to change. Because we'll be busy doing those summer activities. Another reason is because my son also loves to spend time on the computer, and I think we will be fighting for time on it!

I think I'm addicted! And will probably have withdrawal symptoms - lol. I actually have cut back since my return from Disney World a few month ago. It was actually nice to not deal with it for a week while I was on my vacation. So who knows maybe summer vacation will end up doing me some good! (Don't worry I'll still be blogging - just might be a little more difficult until school starts again)

Soge Shirts.com

My blogging friend Tim Fox from the blog Sogeshirts Presents , also has a great T-shirt site called Soge Shirts.

Soge Shirts has a huge variety of T-shirts and also some other merchandise available. The T-shirts come in sizes small-3X and even has some in kids small-large. (I even noticed some cute baby "onesies".) The T-shirts also come in a variety of colors, and styles.

At Soge Shirts the T-shirts have funny sayings, from Political Humor, to Humor form modern culture. Here's a picture of one I thought was funny. It's a statement about todays rising Gas Prices. And might make a good Mother's Day or Father's Day Gift.

Soge Shirts also has other merchandise to choose from, some of the sayings or designs on the shirts can also be purchased on a hat or mug for example. Here's picture of a hat, with a Captain's Wheel on it, that I thought would make a good gift for someone or even for yourself.
Soge Shirts also will do customized shirts. They can put your picture on a shirt, and even make you into a "Zoolander Model" for example. Look at this guy they made into one and then put it on a shirt (or even some of the other products they have):



So check out Soge Shirts at http://www.sogeshirts.com for a variety of great T-Shirts (and other merchandise) at great prices!

PayPerPost

I got approved for payperpost the other day! I was denied once before, but after emailing the friendly Support team at PayPerPost, the problem was fixed. They told me to resubmit my blog, and I did. Then very quickly that day they told me I was approved.

Now I can start applying to get some Opps at payperpost , and maybe make a little extra money.Being a Stay at Home Mom with two kids any extra money I get only can help. I can use the money to pay some bills or buy myself something or my kids who are always needing or wanting something!

I think I actually heard about them through other blogs. I've seen other blogs talking about it and maybe even saw a Goggle ad on someone's blog for it. So I thought I would give it a try.

What I saw that I love about PayPerPost is that there are so many opportunities to talk about different topics. The prices the advertisers pay are very generous and I can't wait until I can make some decent money. I'm still somewhat of a "newbie" in the blogging world, but I am always trying to find new and exciting ways to make my blog interesting for my readers. I hope that I get more readers, and using payperpost I think I should get quite a few! So check out some of my older posts and see how you like them!

Link2blogs

FREE BLOG TRAFFIC FOR YOUR BLOG!

I wanted to tell everyone about a website that I just joined Link2blogs.com.

Link2Blogs is a free text link exchange that provides blogs the ability to cross-promote each other. Member blogs display a box containing text links in order to earn credits.

How does it work? Very simple. Sign up, place a simple html code into your blog and that'll display Link2blogs box in your blog. Every reader that clicks on blogs listed in your Link2blogs box will earn you credits.


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Blogging for Dummies

The reason I haven’t posted anything in a few days, is because I’ve been busy doing some of the technical side of things on my blog. Which for a new blogger like me can take up a lot of time.

As stated in my post “Even the Library has a Blog,” I was looking for some books at the library on blogging. I had really wanted one of those “dummy” books, which unfortunately my library didn’t have. But I figured there must be one of those books. And there is “Blogging for Dummies” by Susannah Gardner and Shane Birley. I have since purchased this book. It is a really excellent book, with great information on everything from A to Z. I have gotten tons of information from it in the past few days alone.

It has helped me with everything from how to use and analyze statistics, to a range of technical questions I had, and offers great solutions. It is a good reference book for anyone - especially “newbies” like me.

Another great source of information for me this past week was a blog I stumbled upon, The Edublogger. One thing I was struggling with this week was how to add RSS Feed. The Edublogger blog has a terrific post on how to do just that called Adding a RSS Feed From Feedburner. It really helped me out a lot this week. The author of the blog Sue Waters, also followed up with a helpful post on How to Add an Email Subscription to Your Blog. If your looking for information on these topics check out The Edublogger.

So now that I’ve gotten some of the technical aspects out of the way, for awhile at least. Maybe now I can concentrate on the writing side of blogging. And maybe someday I won’t be such a “dummy!”

Even the Library has a Blog!

I just went to my local library to check out some books. All on blogging, since I'm new at this (they don't really have that many books on the subject, at least not at my library).

The only book that seemed to pertain to the subject is "Publising a Blog with Blogger", by Elizabeth Castro. Which of course could not be found on the shelf easily. I then had to go to the lady at the Reference Desk for help finding it. We finally located it, and she even helped me locate a few more books on Blogs. She even commented on how there wasn't that many books on it.

I was hoping for one of those "dummy" books, like "Blogging for Dummies." No such luck! More people should write books on it, it could be a gold mine.

Anyway, after I located any books I could find, I preceded to the check out, when the Librarian noticed the topic of my books and said, "Did you know the Library has a Blog now?" I said no, she said yes. On their website now is a blog. I can only imagine the fascinating topics they cover.

She did mention some computer classes they're offering. She said there was one on blogs, but when I got home I checked their website and it was "Web Design." I wonder if that would help? The classes are "free" at least. Check out your local library for any classes that you might like!

Well it just goes to show if the local library has a blog then it really is catching on.