Favicon!

Yes, the fact that neither the Gamebuino´s main home page and forum have no favicon is driving me nuts... :evil:
For those that don´t know, a favicon is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

It may look like something not important, but it is not.
A great favicon redefines how we think and act as a society and propels the human race into a new age of enlightment! :D

Therefore, I propose we create one for the main page and our forum.
Here is my take on it, first a study...
Gamebuino in pixel art, then half size and the final shot!

...there are some failed attempts too, on perspective as small as 16x16 as you can see...
I also append my final choice as a competitor. PNG 32bits (with alpha that is).

I would like to see/know if anyone is interested in doing one too, It would be nice to see better talents then my attempt. :)
As you can see from mine, it looks ok zoomed, but a good favicon must look great on 1x1 size, mine is not doing that job properly...

Opa, maybe a green one 2 colors, only the more marked features?...and possibly a tone that matches the kind of grey on the main page and forum backgrounds? (sorry I did a green one there;P).

Hey erico, Great idea! I thought it would be fun and made one too (although it's based off your idea!)



P.s. I vote for your little white one!

somehow that one reminds me of the sega gamegear

my vote goes to the top right one ;p

But there must be more entries for a voting thing... :?

Made a few extras and a test screen...the diagonal gamebuino kind of looks nice.
I think there also may need some palette work for it to look ok.

EDIT:
hey Treflip, don´t worry about ideas, on the realm of 16x16, there aren´t much of an original thing me guesses :D Nice one you did!

While not nessicary, it is a nice feature. Password safes like KeePass use the Favicon for a quick link to the right password, as well. Nice for when you've got way too many tabs open.

Thanks for your work, they look great!
Should i start a official poll or something? My preferred is the one on the rightmost tab (diagonal, colored Gamebuino).

I don´t know, maybe a pool is not much needed.
It seems people are not that interested in favicons at all...must be one of the reasons the good and great of the world is not advancing in a faster fashion. :P

I will put together a set of options (with some color fixes for the white background) later and then you pick one.

Sounds good, thanks a lot for making this website a better place :)

Ok, did a few modifications so it looks better over white background, here the final set.
Pick the one you think is better suited.

That looks great, thanks a lot :D
I'll change is asap

The website now has a super fancy favicon, thanks Erico! :D

You are welcome. The site now strives in glory on a new age! :D

Damn chrome here is a bug to update the favicons...but it shows fine on firefox.

erico wrote:Damn chrome here is a bug to update the favicons...but it shows fine on firefox.

I tried cleaning chrome's cache and deleting chrome's favicon file but it didn't solve the problem :(...on firefox and IE it works fine. I guess it's just a matter of time before chrome cleans its (hidden?) cache.

Looks good... especially on my favorites bar!

Hooray!
Thank you, I made a topic but it didn't work out..

Good, chrome finally synched stuff out of nowhere and the favicon shows up on browser and mobile. :)
Tha background mobile is a bit similar to the grey I used on the gamebuino board, so it dosen´t look as nice as on desktop...
...but we are getting there! Looks really neat. ;)

erico wrote:Good, chrome finally synched stuff out of nowhere and the favicon shows up on browser and mobile.

Not actually out of nowhere, I found out that some browsers are a little picky a accept a favicon so I had to include it several different ways for all the browsers to accept it.

erico wrote:Tha background mobile is a bit similar to the grey I used on the gamebuino board, so it dosen´t look as nice as on desktop...

To me it's perfect, thanks for that neat favicon :)