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How To Spruce Up Your Blog

favEver wish you had some cool buttons or a custom logo or even one of those little thingamajigs that goes on the tab in the browser (favicon). Well now you can.

There are all sorts of web 2.0 generators out there that will generate buttons, badges, logos, templates - anything you need really with just a few clicks. So even those of us that admit to not being the most geeky or technical can be cool just like everybody else. Here’s a few of my favorites.

dynamic1. Favicon Generator - This generator from Dynamic Drive is great. It took me all of 1 minute and 17 seconds to create a favicon, upload it, and insert the code for my favicon. You can see my new favicon up top!

how2button 2. Button Maker - You’ve seen the little 80 x 15 buttons that the cool kids have on their sites. Well now you can have one too using the button maker from Blog Flux.

load 3. Loading Gif - I don’t even know what I would use this for, but at least I have one.

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4. Custom Buttons - Use this one to make some cool graphic buttons. You can put different icons inside the button or not have an icon at all. I like this one because it gives you a lot of options.

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5. Badges - Perhaps your blog is still in Beta. You could let people know with this badge generator.

 

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6. Web 2.0 Logo Generator - What I really like about this logo generator are the icons that you can choose from and put in the corner of the logo. You could, if you wanted, place an octopus like mine on your logo. Other choices include a Beta tag, a shark, money, a shield, blob people, and a toaster. It was a hard choice to go with the octopus over the toaster, but as you can see, I think I made the correct one.

These are just a few of the available generators you can find online. A more complete and much longer list can be found at AjaxFlakes. The great thing about these generators is that it literally takes a minute to create something, of course, if you want it to look good, you might want to spend a little more time than I did playing around with them.