[TenPercenter]

2000 chips to spend in the store for the best favicon.ico to be used for ChipTalk.

I will pick the best ten, and then I will open a poll in this thread for everyone to vote.

Please submit in this very thread (just reply and post a link or an attachment). Entries made after 10/18/2007

The submissions to cast your vote for:
(Note: Some of these will show up different when actually used as a favicon. ie: No animation, transparent backgrounds)

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

[ACE'S FULL]

Its easy... Here goes...

[JM]

I have 2 entries:
Yeltzen - THE chiptalk icon!

The chuckster

[UW85]

Originally Posted by TenPercenter

favicon.ico

Sorry Greg, I'm "older" -- what the heck does favicon.ico mean?


PS I think I get "favorite icon" -- so is it our favorite icon that represents CT? Geeze, sorry to sound so slow.

[develvjd-]

Don't worry U-dub, I'm Gen Y and my first thought was "Say WHAAT???"

Second thought: Google it.

"Internet Explorer ("IE") 5.0 and above has a facility where, if someone bookmarks your website (ie puts it in their "Favorites" menu), it associates a particular icon with your website in the bookmark. It tries to obtain that icon by first requesting for "favicon.ico" from the directory of your web page. If it cannot find such a file, it will try to obtain it from the root directory of your website, failing which, it will simply use a default icon for the bookmark.

On the other hand, the favicon.ico file is available, the icon will also be displayed beside your website name in the "Favorites" menu, the location bar in IE, and if the user opens up the "Favorites" folder, it will be the icon used for the link to your site."

[UW85]

Originally Posted by develvjd-

Don't worry U-dub, I'm Gen Y and my first thought was "Say WHAAT???"

Second thought: Google it.

"Internet Explorer ("IE") 5.0 and above has a facility where, if someone bookmarks your website (ie puts it in their "Favorites" menu), it associates a particular icon with your website in the bookmark. It tries to obtain that icon by first requesting for "favicon.ico" from the directory of your web page. If it cannot find such a file, it will try to obtain it from the root directory of your website, failing which, it will simply use a default icon for the bookmark.

On the other hand, the favicon.ico file is available, the icon will also be displayed beside your website name in the "Favorites" menu, the location bar in IE, and if the user opens up the "Favorites" folder, it will be the icon used for the link to your site."

Took a couple re-reads but I got it! Thank you very much.

[develvjd-]

I'm not sure what the current favicon is.

Maybe a top-down view of a pumpkin?

[abby99]

Since the CT logo has already been nominated, I nominate the one that currently appears on my screen (and which appeared by default), the Egyptian Octagon. It's a nice shape and color, but even better, it's the one obsolete chip (excluding the plaque) from one of the two sister chip sets that kicked off Chiptalk (do I have that right?).

You all know what it looks like: linky (scroll almost halfway down the page)

[shadesofgrey]

10 - what are the rules? does the image have to adhere to the standard 16x16 size or can we use larger icons than that? what file type should we use? PNG or JPG?

[BCR_9er]

Here's my submission.