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Facebook Security and Privacy Settings

Facebook Security and Privacy Settings

Have you taken a look at your Facebook security and privacy settings lately? Most of us use Facebook as a mean to connect with family and friends, more so now that the COVID pandemic forces us to stay home and prevent us from having physical gatherings and travels.

Facebook is currently one of the biggest social networking site that makes it easy for us to connect and share with family and friends online. To date, Facebook has 2.89 billion monthly active users and growing. It is a fantastic platform to stay in touch with family and friends.

However, few of us pay attention to our Facebook Security and Privacy Settings after we have signed up for Facebook. I have many friends who had unwittingly lost their passwords to so-called “trusted friends”, had their Facebook identity copied, and even unknowingly exposed personal family photos to the world, instead of keeping the audience limited to family.

Family and friends have often approached me to set up their Facebook security and privacy settings for them. What better time than now as I am stuck at home to create a video tutorial that serves as a basic guide in establishing a safer and more private Facebook environment for your sharing with your family and friends. I have used my Facebook privacy and settings as the example in the video. Please note you may always choose the level you are comfortable with, depending on how private or public you want to go. To watch the Facebook Security and Privacy Settings video tutorial, please click here. I would love to hear some feedback on this tutorial to see if it was easy to follow and if it helps you to understand the safe practice of using Facebook.

Once you have set up your Facebook Security and Privacy setting, you may use the “View As” to see how others view your Facebook.

Facebook View As Button

 

Always keep updated with the changes in Facebook, and routinely check your security and privacy settings. By spending some time to go through the set up, you will reduce your worries and stress about sharing safely in Facebook.

Well, that’s it from me for today. Be safe and mindful on what, how and who you share with online as you engage in your online activities with family, friends and others. Keep up the good faith as we go through together in our challenge to remain healthy physically and mentally, and to do the right thing in fighting the battle against this stubborn virus we are facing. Cheers!

 

Favicon For Your Site

Favicon For Your Site

Favicon for Your Site Dummy Guide

Today I did a favicon for my blogger, so I am going to share with you on how to create a favicon for your site, whether it is your blogger or personal hosted site. Look up at your browser tab – do you see my favicon? Some of you regular internet users would probably have noticed the favicons as you surf the internet, but may not know much about it or why it is there except that it is. So let me share with you a little bit on that before we start creating one for your site.

What is a favicon?

A favicon is a little image that you see associated with a site. It is a special file that ends in an .ico extension. The standard favicon is a graphic 16×16 pixels square, although more recently, it is also served as 32×32 pixels in specific browsers, e.g. Windows 8: IE10 Metro. You can use a favicon with any site on a web server that allows access to the root directories. Depending on the browser support, it typically displays in the browser’s address Favicon in browser address   next to the page’s name in bookmark listing Favicon beside BookMark Lists   next to the page’s title on the tab Favicon in title tab   It is short for favourite icon or better known as
  • Website icon
  • URL icon
  • Bookmark icon
  • Tab icon
First released by Microsoft for IE5 in 1999, it was later on standardised by the World Wide Web Consortium. For those who would like more understanding of the technical aspects of a favicon and browser implementation, please refer to Wikipedia.

Why use a favicon?

Sites without a favicon will show a little blank page icon. With a favicon, your site will stand out earning you
  • Site/Logo Branding
  • Instant Site Recognition
  • Quick Recall from Bookmarks
  • Added Professionalism

Creating a favicon

Now the fun begins. Making a favicon has never been easier with many free icon generators available online. It can be done in just a two simple steps:
  1. Create and design your image or just pick a favourite photo or image. (Keep your graphic design simple. Ensure you image is square. Recommended minimum size of 144×144 pixels).
  2. Convert your image into an ICO file and save in your computer/system. You may use any of the favicon generators below:

Installing Favicon into Blogger

1. Use the Blogger main menu > Layout. 2. Locate the Favicon gadget and click Edit. Layout-Page 3. Choose File to upload your created favicon.ico. 4. Click Save. Configure Favicon You have now successfully installed a favicon for your blogger. To change your favicon – just repeat the same steps to edit anytime.

Installing Favicon onto your website.

      1. Access your website’s file manager and upload .ico file to your website’s main directory (public_html folder).
      2. Insert the code below into every page of your html files between the <head> and </head> tags unless you have a dynamic header, in which case, you just need to insert the code into the index page: <link rel=”shortcut icon” type=”image/x-icon” href=”/favicon.ico”> Note: Replace favicon.ico if your .ico file is named differently from favicon.ico E.g. If you have named your favicon.ico as xyl.ico, then the link should look like <link rel=”shortcut icon” type=”image/x-icon” href=”/xyl.ico”>
      3. Save and check the site by visiting online to view your favicon. You may need to clear your cache or wait a day or two before it appears correctly.
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