Design the nu-ilx favicon and win £5000*

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*this is a lie

but design a nu-ilx favicon anyway

make a 16x16 GIF and post it on this thread

we'll decide/argue over which one is best

and you might finally gain our respect and adulation if you win*

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link

but waht is a favicon?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

http://siteshuffle.com/images/google_favicon.gif

― onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://scoopsnoodle.com/lix/hardees.gif

― a_p (a_p), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ilx.thehold.net/favicon.ico

("Your closing quote mark should be followed by a space or a >"
is this still the eighties?)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link

initial ideas #1:

http://base58.com/ilx/ilxfavicon1.gif

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

ooh how long do we have? i'm on this

― Ste (fuzzy), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i15.tinypic.com/2hgxp1t.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

HOw do you get such a... favicon... in front of your URL. Cause that's what yr talking about no?

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

the closing date for entries is whenever nu-ilx goes up

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it possible to have several different ones, and it picks one at random every time you load a page?

I was going to say the original is best, but I can't deny that this http://base58.com/ilx/ilxfavicon1.gif is pretty great.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

:-( everyone is ignoring my stupid question. :-(

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

16x16 is so small you can't even make out the trains :(

http://i13.tinypic.com/441989g.jpg

― onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

is it possible to use an animated gif with all the cat pics?

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

the original is a bit naff and misleading (ha ha) but at least it says it in big letters.

it was originally made by me as an actual logo (along with many others on a thread about that, started by me, years ago) but gr4h4m decided to adopt it as the favicon.

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you should stick with just two or three colours or you can't make out what it is. See xpost.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

HOw do you get such a... favicon... in front of your URL. Cause that's what yr talking about no?

it should automatically happen when you bookmark that domain or website's index page

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Nathalie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon (not that I don't want to explain, but someone already wrote all of that down there)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

(the browser requests it from the server. if the browser doesn't support it or the server doesn't have one then you won't see it. firefox regularly messes up the ones i have in my bookmarks list, especially the bbc ones:

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/photos/fav.png
)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay, thanks! :-)

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

weird that's never happened to me/my firefox

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/4145/eaglecrywhitebackgnd3aa3.jpg

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

oh stan did that. my other idea was ;_;

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

We need something that looks like work. Excel? Word? Access?

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link

tits.gif

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Firefox on my home pc actually sees all favicons, its IE that seems to throw a wobbler with them. It doesn't see hardly any.

― Ste (fuzzy), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

ask Beth to spell out I L and X with yellow stones on her scanner and scale that pic down to 16x16 ?

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

tits.gif

man boobs no doubt

― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 16 February 2007 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.mipecado.com.ar/img/emoticon/censura/pussy.gif

― Slump Man (Slumpman), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

16x16 this:
http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1168702253-1167568069925.t.jpg

WHY FIGHT IT

― BounceBounceBounceBounceBounceBounceBounce (bounce), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

what's wrong with the OG icon?

― giboyojimbo (gbx), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/392417652_42c7c1413b.jpg?v=0

(Also, I get credit for the cameltoe favicon)

― After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rain, Friday, 16 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

ok UH wins

― giboyojimbo (gbx), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/392422359_5163d2c30d.jpg?v=0

― After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rain, Friday, 16 February 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/favicon.gif

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/sevenxviii/favicon.gif

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn, I can't make this any smaller ;_;

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/392430285_78d816daef.jpg?v=0

― After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rain, Friday, 16 February 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img15.imgspot.com/u/07/46/19/untitled1171670762.GIF

― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow. Imagine the time you spent on that.

― KeefW (KeefW), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I did it for love.

― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

If I have my way, which I might, Louis Jagger will be the only poster left on ILX.

― KeefW (KeefW), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I get on well with Louis. It was a "joke".

― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

first try; i can do better

ihttp://img251.imageshack.us/img251/6237/ilxsz1.gif

― a.b. (abanana), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

(xp) we'll have none of that on ilx, now

― coz larry (bundgee), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/6237/ilxsz1.gif

― a.b. (abanana), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Good stuff. xx-post.

― KeefW (KeefW), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

But, y'know, well done Cap'n Save-a-Poppage.

― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I meant xxx-post. That didn't work. The software must be crap. Just wait for the new stuff for much worse.

― KeefW (KeefW), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/favicon2.gif

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

it really has to be UH.gif

― a_p (a_p), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i tried to make a RESPECK KNUCKLES one, but it wasn't readable :(

― m00kiepr00f (m00kiepr00f), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

put the ;_; in kenan's heart and i'd go for that

― resumo impetus (blueski), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/4429/mooninitenq1.png

― M.V. (M.V.), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

is that the robot?

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 17 February 2007 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link

it's the mooninite

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link

If I have my way, which I might, Louis Jagger will be the only poster left on ILX.

AND I LOVE COOKING! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY :D

― stet (stet), Saturday, 17 February 2007 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link

It's hard doing somethign with only 16 x 16 pixels!

― PPlains (PPlains), Saturday, 17 February 2007 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

use favicon from my userpage:
http://ilx.thehold.net/userinfo.php?username=Curt1s+Stephens

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 17 February 2007 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha WTF!

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 17 February 2007 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

(I had my speakers up really loud then :( )

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 17 February 2007 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

otm

― jw (ex machina), Saturday, 17 February 2007 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry!!!

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 17 February 2007 04:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't be, I laughed my head off =)

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 17 February 2007 04:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Awesome, Curtis.

― PPlains (PPlains), Saturday, 17 February 2007 05:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked the old favicon.

― It's a hard world, for little things... (papa november), Saturday, 17 February 2007 06:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the old one, too.

― Casuistry (casuistry), Saturday, 17 February 2007 06:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I agree.

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 17 February 2007 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link

nah. yellow and red is nasty together, esp. THAT yellow and THAT red. looks like hot dog condiments.

I like the idea that we make it look like work. or make it really boring. Or make it nothing.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 07:27 (seventeen years ago) link

NOTHING! NOTHING WOULD BE PERFECT!

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe we can do an Internet Explorer job on the logo, and just make the colors a little deeper and add some cheezy-ass plastic effect or something.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 07:35 (seventeen years ago) link

upside down ie logo?

― jw (ex machina), Saturday, 17 February 2007 07:46 (seventeen years ago) link

it's not I Love Schwa

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 07:47 (seventeen years ago) link

1997

― jw (ex machina), Saturday, 17 February 2007 08:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Hot Dog condiments do NOT look nasty.

― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Saturday, 17 February 2007 09:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/fluffysphere/favicon.jpg

― Aaron Godfrey (aaron d.g.), Saturday, 17 February 2007 09:39 (seventeen years ago) link

it won't fit into 16x16 :)

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/dobber.jpg

― grimly fiendish (simon), Saturday, 17 February 2007 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.26pigs.com/dandy/bully.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 17 February 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

sonned in a bully beef

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 17 February 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

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