Re: TECH: Site Icons
| From: | Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 7, 2006, 12:02 |
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Hi Paul, and others,
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 Paul Bennett wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...>
> >1. Open Paint in Windows (any recent version).
> >2. Create a bitmap in hi-colour (24-bit), size 32x32 pixels.
> >3. Save it in the Windows hi-colour Bitmap Format.
> >4. Change the file extension to .ico instead of the default .bmp.
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> That'll make a passable (but non-optimal) Windows .ICO file.
Optimal? Who said anything about optimal?! ;-)
To make a GOOD icon, you need an artist;
no, you need a GOOD artist; the constraint
of creating a useful and non-trivially different
representation of any thing or idea in a mere
2 to the power 10 pixels is a very real one.
To make an optimal one, you need to define
the criterion or objective function to optimise.
And what was your criterion of optimality,
anyway?
> The kind of icon I think the OP was asking about (that appears in
> the Address Bar, and in your Bookmarks) is called a favicon,
> about which see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon which
> contains a very instructive guide.