The new favicon

Post by **Chroelle** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:45

Well some of you might have noticed that there is a small favicon (small icon next to the adress) now represented here on CWF. I wanted to see if I could make it work first, and it seems it kicked in after a couple of days. The current favicon is only our banner-logo sized down, and due to a colorlimitation also recolored. I am going to try and make something more tasteful and simple soon, but please if you have any ideas let me know. This will be somewhat representative of our site. It will be the mark that people know us by if they mark us as a favourites site.
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Post by **Zyx** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 15:24

Most modern browsers support favicons that are actually .png's (or .gifs), so you don't actually need to worry about color limitations etc. (The only exception are some now outdated versions of MSIE).

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

How I have done things is a bit different, however. My preferred solution so far is to actually have a favicon.ico (which is a ICON file) and this HTML snippet in the HTML HEAD:

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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://wwwexample.org/favicon.png" type="image/png">

All browsers that I've used then go and get the .png-file instead, the .ico is there "just for in case".

Jetstar · Post by **Jetstar** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:42

It's really messed on up on my end. Maybe you're changing it right now or something.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 15:46

You mean it's too small?

I agree, it's undecipherable atm.

Post by **Chroelle** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 16:35

I am trying to look into something that looks better atm, but if you have any ideas for something that could represent us with that size icon please let me know.
I am trying some stuff out for my webdesign-site too, so if you want to see how it looks there then just press the www button under this post. Or press the huge CONNECT WEBDESIGN AD in the bottom of the page.

(It should work shortly)

Post by **Zyx** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 17:27

Due to the small size of favicons and the fact that we don't really have a logo, I suggest just a huge "C".

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 19:43

Favicon with most letters (of those which I know well) is IMDb. M can be hardly distinguishable from H, though.

YouTube has seven letters and its logo is next to being clear.

It's possible imho. Tell me what size must f-con be and I'll play with it a little.

Post by **Chroelle** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 0:14

Well so far I am trying to keep it under 1kb. But it seems next to impossible to get something clear done without being boring. But please give it a shot, since I am just walking around the same paths over and over again.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:06

Well, I asked for width and height.

Post by **Zyx** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:17

The size doesn't really matter, given that it's only loaded once and 1 kb is downloaded in less than a second even on a dial-up.

Post by **Chroelle** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 16:06

But think 16x16 or something like that...

I tried to make a new favicon and added it and so far I haven't seen neither that or the old one the last two days... Have anyone seen either one.

eMTe · Post by **eMTe** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 17:03

Here, 505 bytes.

I can do much prettier one, so this one is only to show that it is possible to keep size under 1 kB.

Post by **Chroelle** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 23:01

I added it to see how it works. Lets see if it shows up soon.