DSLRUsers.com

Just wondering if we should have a favicon for the site ?

wikipedia wrote:A favicon (short for "Favorites icon"), also known as a page icon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon, and many graphical web browsers—such as recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, and Konqueror—can then make use of them. Browsers that support favicons may display them in the browser's URL bar, next to the site's name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page's title in a tabbed document interface.

Example favicon for wikipedia:


Just an idea, i think its adds quite a bit to site, also helps when selecting the site from your bookmarks.

Mmmmm looks good to me!

Eh. We could do it.

Anyone else think it's a good idea?

Why not

I didn't know what they were called, but I always liked the look of them - kinda gives a website a better look. If we can make one, then I'm all for it.

Frank

All you need is a picture
then use this site to create it http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

then put it in the web root.

easy

Oh I know how to do it... lol.

I was just curious if anyone else wanted it.

Well, I grabbed the banner graphic and produced this:

Not saying it's a work of art: more of a "straw man" to get ideas started.

Nnnnsic wrote:I was just curious if anyone else wanted it.

Yes Leigh - I think you should do it! You've been taking way too many photo's lately, and it's time you paid some attention to the site development!

sheepie wrote:

Nnnnsic wrote:I was just curious if anyone else wanted it.

Yes Leigh - I think you should do it! You've been taking way too many photo's lately, and it's time you paid some attention to the site development!

If I told you some of the things we're working on, you'd shut up!

Then again, it'd either ruin the surprise or spoil the lie!

I'd like to see it done. For some reason, my link displays The Age's icon

PiroStitch wrote:I'd like to see it done. For some reason, my link displays The Age's icon

Do you use firefox ?
I have that bug in firefox for a few sites. My online gameing clan is for some reason google at home and whirlpool at work

Nnnnsic wrote:If I told you some of the things we're working on, you'd shut up!

Then again, it'd either ruin the surprise or spoil the lie!

April 1 already? surely not!!!

resnikov wrote:

PiroStitch wrote:I'd like to see it done. For some reason, my link displays The Age's icon

Do you use firefox ?
I have that bug in firefox for a few sites. My online gameing clan is for some reason google at home and whirlpool at work

One and only browser I use

Ok. Done.

Nnnnsic wrote:Ok. Done.

Done? What's done? There's no favicon on the site yet...

cute

DaveB wrote:

Nnnnsic wrote:Ok. Done.

Done? What's done? There's no favicon on the site yet...

its there for me . you might have to refresh or clear your cache.

DaveB wrote:There's no favicon on the site yet...

Actually I notice that you do have a favicon.ico file, but it doesn't meet the favicon specs (e.g. it's not 16x16 pixels) so it's not going to be shown by most browsers. Certainly it's not showing up with Safari.

The sample design I posted earlier WAS 16x16 pixels BTW.

Well you see, that's quite odd because it was made using the engine as previously noted from this website.

However, one other reason it may not be working is I've only added it to the index page at the front. I'll add it to the main php indexes in a few minutes.

And Safari... eh... Mac...
I've tested it with both Opera and Firefox... so far, I'm calling it a problem in both Safari and IE's coding... which I'll just leave alone for fear of backlash from those users who actually like Safari (which as I understand it is pretty similar or even based on a Mozilla engine anyway) and those who don't know there's a world beyond Microsoft's evil browser.

I don't even look at the new Netscape anymore... it's just gotten too bad.

Nnnnsic wrote:If I told you some of the things we're working on, you'd shut up!

Then again, it'd either ruin the surprise or spoil the lie!

Yes, April 1st comes but once a year... make the most of it.

Onyx wrote:Yes, April 1st comes but once a year... make the most of it.

Off Topic:
I haven't even thought about it yet. Lol.
The Maxwell idea only came about 2-3 weeks before April 1st and we only worked on it for about 2-3 days. Nice try, though.

On Topic:
DaveB, I've run the site through the FavIcon validator and while the image may well be at 32x32, the Validator is showing it being able to send out at 16x16 and 32x32.
I'd refresh a few times.

That said, it's only working in two of the three browsers I've tested tonight:
Firefox 1.0.6
Opera 8.02

I did make a few of these things to see which I'd like most... I went with the "dslr" one... so this - the one immediately below - should be the one you see:

DSLRUsers.com logo

However, I also had these ones prepared:

D70Users.com logo
Top-down D70 shot
D70 line art
"No Flash"

Yup, working with Firefox but not with Safari at the moment.

Bugger.

I guess I'm going to have to go dig up information on Safari then.

From the shots on Apple's site, it looks like Safari is powered by something Mozilla based... then again, everyone has been either buying and modifying the Mozilla engine or mimicking it for some time now, it just may be that.

Regardless, I'll go see what Safari's requirements are for the Mac users here.

The Windows users who still use IE, well, you have no excuse.