[GLLUG] New GLLUG site online! favicon

[Thomas Hruska]

Charles Ulrich wrote:
> Richard Houser wrote:
>> Karl,
>>
>> Thank you for the attempt, but I think it looks like a tea-kettle even
>> at 500% zoom :-( (not your fault in any way).  I don't think it is
>> possible to get that logo into a 16x16 ico format that will look decent.
>>   Perhaps it would work for a 32x32 or 64x64 PNG, but that wouldn't work
>> with those individuals that are temporarily stuck with IE.
>>
>> How about something simpler?  There has to be an ultra-low resolution
>> Tux around somewhere just for this purpose.
> 
> I took the GLLUG logo, cut tux out of it, and scaled it down to a 16x16 png.
> It looks okay. Tux is recognizable.
> 
>> Also, once we have this image, how do we plan to integrate it into the
>> page?  Ideally, we would have the link embedded in the markup's head
>> tag, but I know IE sites are often fond of the hack of placing the image
>> on the server root.
> 
> I'm assuming Drupal handles all of this since there's a place in the theme
> configuration to upload a favicon. If it doesn't, well, IE users are just
> going to have to suffer through the lack of a favicon somehow. :P
> 
> Also, I adjusted the link color to an almost-dark blue so links stand out a
> bit better. (There are a few CSS tweaks left to do as well, mainly with
> fonts.)
> 
> Okay, now that bugs #1 and #2 are fixed, who has more?

Actually, Firefox (at least under Windows) will display a favicon if it 
is available.  IMO, and ironically, FF does a better job with favicons 
than IE does.

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