I'm One Of *Those* Bloggers?

I recently found out that I'm a 'no-reply' blogger. Thanks to Di @ Cook the Tv.  Thanks, Di!! *waves hi*

I can't imagine anything more frustrating than trying to contact me and getting the "duntduntdun" "we're sorry. This blogger is no-reply" comment.  

I had no idea that I was guilty. *hangs head in shame*

I also figured out how you ladies were getting your name@your blog  in the comment section. Sneaky little gals. LOL

Well, I'm going to try to give you a little tutorial on a) changing to a reply blogger and b) how to get your name@your blog.  

First, you have to use the old blogger profile and not the G+ profile (I'm only guessing here, IDK for sure if you have to)....Duh.. I wish I had known that weeks ago.  So, from your blogs dashboard, click on the little gear to the right of the page.  It will give you a drop-down menu.  Choose revert to Blogger profile:

 Now, you will be using the Blogger profile.  In the upper right hand corner, click on the little arrow by your picture. (Or if you're like me, and hadn't set up that profile, it will be an ugly grey silhouette).  Choose Blogger Profile:

Next, you're going to edit profile:

In the next window, you MUST make sure that 'show my email address' is clicked. 

I hope that's it. :)  Maybe someone could test it for me?  

As I said before, I always wondered how you ladies got your site as your name on your comments, and at the end of your blog post.  I admit it...I must be an idiot. LOL.  But, just in case someone else didn't know, here is the secret:  

There is an adorable little identity section; 'display name'. How easy!  Then, if you were like me and had the ugly gray avatar, the arrow shows the section to change your picture. 

I am, literally, learning as I go here, folks!  If you have any other suggestions/comments, please help me!  

Oh, and I changed my contact icon on my sidebar to reflect a true email address instead of RSS feed. That must have been confusing too! 

Adding Your Own Favicon

My maintenance man has a major remodel going on at work.  This means, he has all my his power tools with him.  This is cutting terribly into my craft time.  During this time, I thought I would revamp my blog.

One thing I noticed that I didn't like was the big orange 'b' in the address bar A.K.A. the favicon.  I wanted that changed.

Here's how to do it:
1 option (didn't work for me) is to change it within your blogger layout:
(I have converted to the new layout, so bear with me)
First locate the blog you want to change.  Then click on 'lay-out'
click the images to make them bigger.

Now, that brings up the page to change/add your gadgets and layout (if you're still using the old format, hopefully this rings a bell.)

This has always had the icon for my favicon, but the big B was still there.  Click 'edit' and choose your file from you computer.  It needs has to be a square image or Blogger will kick it out.

Hit save, and hopefully, your Favicon will be whatever your heart desires.  Mine, on the other hand, took a little bit of work.

Click on design; edit HTML:

Hit Cmd F or Ctrl F to open finder, and type /head.  This is where you are going to place the code.  First, tho, you have to upload your image to a hosting site.  I used Photobucket.

Once, you have located   insert this code directly above:

 

     






Change the highlighted part to the URL (or direct link from Photobucket) of your image, and 'save', that should be it.  That big orange 'B'  should now be your image.