Anyone fancy making a site icon?

[tarquin]

I was looking across my Firefox tabs and I noticed PJB doesn't have a site icon.

How about we make one? I was thinking one half of the handcuffs from our logo might be good. It would still be comprehensible at that reduced size.

 

[ChaosJester]

Edit: Tried making image- wasn't clear or easy too read. However it was a bitmap. Someone with Photoshop or Paintshop Pro could try a vector image, but I don't think an image that small will be easy to do. gl tarquin you're gonna need it.

 

[Wormbo]

16x16, I'd guess.

 

[ChaosJester]

Actually it feels closer to 18 by 18 which is odd. You would think 16 by 16 would be it. Wormbo, thanks for the suggestion though, but 16 by 16 seemed much too small and 20 by 20 too big by far. The image I made was real simple, and still didn't look good. Oh well.

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

1 handcuff? I've got IconCoolEditor here, you can do loads of stuff with it. I'll have a look at it and we'll see what's the result

 

[Trueblood]

how about a llama head on its own? If its possible to put bars infront, that would be better

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

it's 16x16...with bars, you won't see the head

here are the handcuffs. For the background colour I used the same colour as PlanetJailbreak has. What you think?

 

[Alhanalem]

you dont need to attach a zip- one can right click on the image and save it somewhere, or they can dig it out of their temporary internet files folder.

 

[tarquin]

I think a single handcuff would be clearer at that size.
Mych has a photoshop file of our logo somewhere, you could lift one of the broken cuffs from that.

Only problem is... I don't remember how to set site icons

 

[RevBillyG]

This should help.

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/favicon.shtml

 

[Wormbo]

From the Opera help:

Page icons

A web page can specify a small icon to represent itself. Opera displays this icon to the left of the page address on the address bar.

The standard method of doing this is by specifying link rel="shortcut icon" in the page document. However, some servers use an outdated standard by putting a file called favicon.ico on root directory of server.

I think the shortcut icon can actually be anything, preferably GIF or PNG if you want transparent background.

 

[Jrubzjeknf]

send the file my way, I'll make it look good with IconCoolEditor.

 

[tarquin]

I tried a single cuff and it looked odd at 16x16 -- it wasn't clear what it was. So I tried simply shrinking the cuffs from the site logo and I think the result is pretty good.

 

[ZedMaestro]

Looks good to me