MindTheGap
33 posts
Oct 28, 2013
6:38 AM
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But Isaac's is best.
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Lmbrjak
211 posts
Oct 28, 2013
11:01 AM
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Tooka,I'd like see the one you did Oct.24 at 2:25 with an orange B instead of blue.
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tookatooka
3561 posts
Oct 29, 2013
8:19 AM
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OK Last one for now.
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isaacullah
2560 posts
Oct 29, 2013
8:24 AM
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As a contributor, I recuse myself from voting, but I do agree with MindTheGap's assessment of what makes for a strong favicon... And this is not just because he likes the one I made! :) It simply made sense to me from a design perspective...
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MindTheGap
34 posts
Oct 29, 2013
8:58 AM
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tooka, I make the MBH orange to be HTML #D44202 RGB(212,66,2) rather than your HTML #F93826 RGB(249,56,38), if that's any help. Maybe the colour has got mangled in making a jpeg.
isaac, actually I like my last one now. But now I can't vote for it. I do like your 'one harp' image, did you make that?
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tookatooka
3562 posts
Oct 29, 2013
9:56 AM
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If mine is accepted I'll alter the colour.
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kudzurunner
4335 posts
Oct 29, 2013
10:41 AM
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My favorites, not in any order, are:
--tookatooka (just above on this page)
--MindtheGap (just above on this page)
--isaacullah (his last design, if I remember correctly)
--jinx (the harp w/o letters)
I think tooka's may do it for me.
What the best way of arbitrating this? I'd like to see all of them in one post, side by side, so we can all look at them.
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nacoran
7276 posts
Oct 29, 2013
10:52 AM
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7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18
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isaacullah
2561 posts
Oct 29, 2013
1:00 PM
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Thanks for putting them all together, Nate! That really helps.
Sitting a normal distance from my screen, the ones that pop out to me from a readability/recognizability standpoint are 3, 10, 14, and 15.
Unless I put my face really near the screen, most of the rest are an indistinguishable blur. And I've got "better" than normal vision...
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tookatooka
3563 posts
Oct 29, 2013
1:30 PM
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Just a note to say that the array of images Nate has kindly created probably consists of second generation jpg copies and depending how they were optimised when saved will not be as sharp as the favicons which they were generated from. The favicon will be better.
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nacoran
7278 posts
Oct 29, 2013
3:29 PM
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Tooka, correct. I did set the jpgs to 100% for best results, but .icos do display better. Looking at them together, I think mine would have benefitted from a better color match. The letters don't pop.
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Frank
3138 posts
Oct 29, 2013
6:09 PM
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kudzurunner
4351 posts
Nov 04, 2013
4:18 AM
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I like #3 and #15 best. I would like to see them in bright blue (for the "blues" in "modern blues harmonica.") Is there any chance of that?
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tookatooka
3564 posts
Nov 04, 2013
8:00 AM
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I think No.15 was Isaac's.
I'm sure he wont mind if I put it here on his behalf.
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nacoran
7303 posts
Nov 04, 2013
8:28 AM
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Tooka, how about yours with either the MBH or the lines in orange (but the other one in that blue)?
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tookatooka
3565 posts
Nov 04, 2013
10:39 AM
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Hi Nate, I think Adam has narrowed it down to 3 and 15 I can try other permutations if required.
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isaacullah
2563 posts
Nov 04, 2013
12:41 PM
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Thanks for doing that, Tooka! Bon chance, mon ami! :)
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2chops
183 posts
Nov 04, 2013
12:51 PM
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Definately #3 in the blue. Very friendly to these 48 year old eyes.
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nacoran
7305 posts
Nov 04, 2013
9:18 PM
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Yeah, Tooka, I was just wondering what #3 would look like with either blue lettering, or, the orange lettering but the blue box (sort of a simplified, 2 color only, #16)
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Lmbrjak
215 posts
Nov 05, 2013
11:13 AM
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Yeah Nate,no.16 with an orange B... leave the curved bars blue.(or blue letters with orange bars)
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kudzurunner
4368 posts
Nov 12, 2013
2:00 PM
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Alright, everybody: #3 in blue (Tookatooka's contribution) wins. Isaac's in blue is the runner up.
Thanks to everybody who participated. Tooka, please email me (asgussow at aol dot com) and I will send you a link so you can download the new Blues Doctors album for free. Official release date is Friday, so you'll be the first person on this forum to have it. And you WILL say nice things about it.
Nate, I hope you can install the blue favicon ASAP.
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nacoran
7325 posts
Nov 12, 2013
8:05 PM
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Tooka, can you send me the .ico file? :)
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tookatooka
3572 posts
Nov 13, 2013
7:24 AM
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Sure Nate. Where do I send it? My email address is on my profile if you'd rather send your email address incognito.
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isaacullah
2567 posts
Nov 13, 2013
9:28 AM
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Congrats, tooka! I'm happy to have made runner-up to such a great dude, and a great design! Let us know how the album sounds!
~Isaac
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Frank
3263 posts
Nov 13, 2013
10:14 AM
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does'nt Rick a least win a rock or sumpin, a can of beans maybe :) :)
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nacoran
7328 posts
Nov 13, 2013
10:22 AM
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Tooka, it's the same as my handle, at hotmail, or you can send it to the membership address and it will forward to us. :)
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nacoran
7329 posts
Nov 13, 2013
4:36 PM
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It is, I think, up. Anyone who can't see it, let me know. Apparently the code can be finicky depending on your browser. It displays on the tab in Chrome, and seems to work in IE. I don't have Firefox, Opera or Safari on my computer though.
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kudzurunner
4371 posts
Nov 13, 2013
5:59 PM
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It looks stupendous in Firefox. It's as good as any of the pro favicons out there. Seriously: It's getter than Google and AOL. Blue and white are dynamic. Congratulations to Tookatooka for a job very well done.
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Frank
3266 posts
Nov 13, 2013
6:31 PM
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I predict Tooka will become the greatest living favicon developer during the present century of the Anno Domini era - the 1st century of the 3rd millennium.... :)
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nacoran
7331 posts
Nov 13, 2013
7:36 PM
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Frank, not if I can help it. Right now I'm studying up on Favicon design. It seems that playing Minecraft teaches you the same skill set- low pixel graphic design! I should be a pro in a week or two and should be a master shortly after that. Now I just need to figure out how to program a CNC machine in Minecraft (don't laugh, people have built working computer circuitry in the game) and I'll have a harmonica company up and running in no time.
edit!!! Okay, so at my annual physical this year, for the first time ever, with one eye I had a hard time reading the 'average' eyesight line (I think it was allergies). That said, I just solved a crazy captcha. I had 3-4 u's or v's, and somehow I figured out which ones were which!
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tookatooka
3573 posts
Nov 14, 2013
3:24 AM
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Great, Thanks guys. Seeing as a lot of browsers use a grey background, I could do one with a transparent background if you feel that would be better than the white Nate?
Thanks Frank :)
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MindTheGap
51 posts
Nov 14, 2013
5:11 AM
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Nice work tookatooka! It's very clear indeed and stands out well in a list. Blue on white looks very clean. It could be turned into a new logo...
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isaacullah
2568 posts
Nov 14, 2013
6:52 AM
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Absolutely agree! It looks great! And I love seeing it in my FF tabs!
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tookatooka
3574 posts
Nov 14, 2013
8:16 AM
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Thanks MTG and Isaacullah. I'm blushing with embarassment :)
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nacoran
7334 posts
Nov 14, 2013
9:55 AM
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Tooka, it's your call. We are all figuring this out as we go. We can try it with a transparency, and see how we like it. :)
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Frank
3271 posts
Nov 14, 2013
10:03 AM
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I think it was MTG to first suggest using the letters (MBH) for a favicon?
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Rick Davis
2680 posts
Nov 14, 2013
11:25 AM
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Looks good.
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AZBluesHarper
35 posts
Nov 15, 2013
6:37 AM
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Yes, the new favicon looks great! Great job Tooka (and Isaa) and thanks Nate for the install. However, when it was first installed, it was displayed in my favorites AND the web address area. Now, it's just displayed in the favorites, while the web address area is still the standard "e" (internet explorer) favicon. I'm using IE10 and Windows 7. Just thought I'd mention it.
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ej
40 posts
Nov 15, 2013
8:27 AM
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Transparent works okay too. Looks good on a gray background.
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AZBluesHarper
36 posts
Nov 15, 2013
9:31 AM
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Hey tooka...I wondered about that so I deleted the favorite, deleted all the cookies and restarted IE and now I don't have the favicon in my favorites or the web address. Is this an issue with IE or something on my end? Any suggestions welcome!
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tookatooka
3578 posts
Nov 15, 2013
10:11 AM
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Did you re-save MBH as a favorite again? I'm not sure if it's an IE or Windows 7 problem, I know my IE8 had a similar problem and was slow so I went over to chrome which appears better.
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AZBluesHarper
37 posts
Nov 15, 2013
10:30 AM
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Yep, I re-saved MBH as a favorite…even cleared my Windows 7 DNS cache as well as deleted all other MBH related favorites before I cleared history, temp files and cookies…but still with the same result. If no one else is having this issue, I guess it’s something I’m doing. I’ll keep trying. At any rate, for the short time I could view the favicon…it was great!!! ;)
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nacoran
7340 posts
Nov 15, 2013
11:44 AM
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Hmm, it could be because we converted it to a .png. Although the site how-to says the site supports .ico files it's only half-true. It supports them if you link to an them from an outside source, but it won't let you save them on the site multimedia page. Originally, I linked a .ico from my dropbox account, but after some wrestling with it, we changed it to a .png so it could be saved here (less chance of the link getting broken that way.)
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AZBluesHarper
38 posts
Nov 15, 2013
12:47 PM
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Hi Nate...just in the little bit of Google research I did to try and find out if it was on my end and what I could do, numerous sources said that IE 10 and before only support .ico favicons. IE 11 is suppose to support .png and .ico. And now I've told you all I know about favicons! :)
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nacoran
7342 posts
Nov 15, 2013
8:04 PM
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Ok AZ, I'm checking at this end to see if we can't get full support for genuine .ico. :)
Edit: AZ, could you click on the homepage and see if that loads it? Help desk switched that one for us, and if that's working, I'll roll it out to the other pages. :)
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AZBluesHarper
39 posts
Nov 16, 2013
5:22 AM
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Hi Nate...you're the man!! Yes, the favicon shows up in the home page web address and also when I put the home page into my favorites. Nicely done!!!!
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nacoran
7346 posts
Nov 16, 2013
11:33 AM
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I can't take the credit. Support did that. Now I've got some HTML cutting and pasting to do. :)
edit- Okay, I've rolled it out to all the pages. If anyone is having problems now, let me know. I also disabled the old link, so if I missed any pages they will be without a favicon... I've double checked, but if anyone stumbles on one, let me know and I'll fix it. :)
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tookatooka
3579 posts
Nov 16, 2013
3:21 PM
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Sorry if this has caused you stress Nate.
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ej
42 posts
Nov 16, 2013
7:37 PM
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Great job everybody!!!!
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nacoran
7348 posts
Nov 16, 2013
10:02 PM
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Tooka, no worries. I see it like solving a puzzle- a little frustrating at times when you get stuck, but totally worth it in the end! :)
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