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Dragon Phoenix
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 Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject: 1 |
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| In Mozilla Firefox, many websites have their own little icon (favicon) in front of the url. When you drag the url to the bar that functions as a direct-access favourites bar, this icon shows up there - and often makes addition of text superfluous. Would it be a lot of work to do this for the GL as well, instead of the boring standard "page" icon it displays now? |
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Lepton*
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject: 2 |
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No, this is a very easy thing to do. For example, the website www.songmeanings.net does it with the following two lines in the html header:
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<link rel="icon" href="http://www.songmeanings.net/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.songmeanings.net/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> |
We will need an appropriately-sized image that is representative of the GL. One of the PALADIN icons would suffice, I think. |
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Lepton*
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject: 3 |
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| My gimp .ico plugin is spitting out binary garbage. Could someone try making a 16p x 16p version of your favourite PALADIN icon? I prefer Puzzles, myself. |
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Dragon Phoenix
Judge Doom
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject: 4 |
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hm...
hm...
How about this?
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Courk
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject: 5 |
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Lepton*
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:24 am Post subject: 6 |
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I was a bit quick to answer, there. Here is a quick intro to the favicon.ico bit:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/web_graphics/article.php/3479911
In short, we need to create a ".ico" archive of potential icons. The above link references a web site that can stitch together a bunch of GIFs into a single .ico file.
Courk's idea jumps out at me in a way that I didn't think it would. |
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Samadhi
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:39 am Post subject: 7 |
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The instructions say that only works with IE.
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Lepton*
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| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:04 am Post subject: 8 |
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| The two lines that I quoted above seem to force the issue in Firefox. |
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jesternl
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| Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:05 pm Post subject: 9 |
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They work in both IE and Firefox.
Favorg is a neat little program for IE that will keep them from getting erased when you clear your cache |
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Dragon Phoenix
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:24 am Post subject: 10 |
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| Courk wrote: |
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I like that one! |
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Samadhi
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:43 am Post subject: 11 |
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I agree. Vote: Courk
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CrystyB
Misunderstood Guy
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:01 pm Post subject: 12 |
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| Lepton* wrote: |
| We will need an appropriately-sized image that is representative of the GL. |
You can put one in (like the one made by Courk), and when a better one comes along, change it in a matter of seconds. |
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jeep
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:00 am Post subject: 13 |
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Well, if no one else is going to jump in... I'll put the icon in place if someone makes Courk's graphic into an icon file with a 16 bit and 32 bit version in it.
-JEEP |
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CrystyB
Misunderstood Guy
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject: 14 |
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I have something in my public folder inside my Yahoo! Briefcase (i think you need to log into Yahoo! to get it). I couldn't make it transparent, but as i said, anything can be improved later on...
PS What 16 bit were you talking about, jeep? Microsoft says 4-bit, 8-bit, or 32-bit are the icon depths. |
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jeep
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:17 pm Post subject: 15 |
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bit? who said bit? I said 16 and 32 pixel, not bit... you really should pay more attention.... 
Sorry, doing too much at once.
-JEEP |
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CrystyB
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:26 pm Post subject: 16 |
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Yeah, i guessed those might have been pixels, but i really don't see what's the need for 32x32.
And by the way, have you tried to get that file i linked to? Did it work?  |
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jeep
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: 17 |
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Various browsers use differnt versions. The 16x16 and 32x32 are the two most used. That is why the favicon is an ico file and not a png or gif...
And yes, I tried going to: http://briefcase.yahoo.com/jokes_free4me
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No shared folders are available.
Sorry, the owner has not enabled any shared folders in their account. |
And a rather nasty animation.
EDIT: Oh and the link itself didn't work for me...
-JEEP |
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Courk
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:47 am Post subject: 18 |
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| I'd make a 16 and 32 version, except I don't know how to make an ico file. |
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Samadhi
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject: 19 |
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You can use the 30 day trial of this
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Samadhi
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:41 pm Post subject: 20 |
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I used Courk's original image and got these:
16x16
32x32
Nifty program. I'll never pay for it though. 
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jeep
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: 21 |
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They need to be in the same ico file, though...
-JEEP |
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Samadhi
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:13 am Post subject: 22 |
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| Uhhhh....let me try that. |
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Samadhi
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:22 am Post subject: 23 |
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I think I did this right....
Both sizes. |
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jeep
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: 24 |
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Enjoy. On scum, it took a couple days for some people to see it and the favicon stuff is flakey in any case, IMO.
I overstepped my bounds and added it to the default_header.php on the main site, too. If it should be undone, Antrax or I can undo it.
-JEEP
EDIT: Oh yeah, don't forget to delete and re-bookmark/re-link/re-add to favorites the page(s). |
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Dragon Phoenix
Judge Doom
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject: 25 |
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| Great! Actually, I did not do a thing and it already showed up in my faves bar! |
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warpdragon
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject: 26 |
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| It works in firefox. |
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mudbuck
Dirty Dollar
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| Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:59 am Post subject: 27 |
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Courk's reminds me of the one I made for my Mozilla Firefox extension.
The only difference is mine is in itallics and slightly skewed. |
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