Playing Favorites and Popping Windows

Hi folks...as some of you have already noticed,
the tech
guys rolled out a favicon for Journals yesterday:



A favicon is a little 16x16 icon that shows up in your URL bar, bookmarks
menu and other locations (depending on your particular Web
browser).



Here's the Wikipedia entry on
favicons, if you want the gory
details.

Oh, and
as I'm writing this, I realize that I can give you a useful tidbit: If
you want your blog's hyperlinks to pop open in a new
window, use this link
syntax (this presupposes that you know a little bit about handcoding
hyperlinks using HTML):

 <a target="_blank"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon">Wikipedia entry on
favicons.</a>



The target="_blank" bit tells the Web browser to
open the link in a new
window.  It's useful if you're sending people off your blog,
though I wouldn't recommend using it for links
within your blog -- your
browser's forward/back buttons should be good enough for
that.


One note of caution: The Journals text
entry field can be a little
finicky when you're entering raw HTML for hyperlinks (which is why I
put
the target in front of the href -- it just seems to work better that
way). 



If you play around with HTML, you might want to work in a
plain text editor, so you can save your work as you go along, and go
back as needed.


Talk to you later. -- Joe