Favicon for signwriting,org

Valerie Sutton sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG
Mon Dec 22 15:56:31 UTC 2008


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December 22, 2008

Hello Bill -
Thanks for this info. This is certainly a new world of marketing a  
brand name with a logo, called a Favicon, which big companies are  
trademarking! Very interesting...

And I have found that only some web browsers show the Favicon.ico that  
I created...Camino, Netscape Navigator, and others do not show the  
Favicon, but Firefox and Safari do...so there must be something I  
don't know yet!

I thought I needed to update Camino to the latest version, so I did  
that, but I still cannot view the Favicon, so maybe the Camino  
developers never put that feature into Camino...Camino is a web  
browser for the mac...

So I guess not all web browsers relate to Favicons the same way...;-))

Anyway...I prefer the simple urls of the past...simple web browsers  
without too much clutter up at the top...

Nonetheless we will try to develop better Favicons...but I certainly  
don't plan to trademark them! The Favicon software I used  
automatically puts the Favicon under the Creative Commons license I  
believe...and that is fine with me!

Thanks for your help -

Val ;-)

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On Dec 22, 2008, at 6:25 AM, Bill Reese wrote:

> Val,
>
> Now that I'm paying more attention to favicons, I noted something a  
> bit different at a Mozilla site
> <moz-screenshot-2.jpg>
>
> They have added their company name just after the favicon they use  
> for adding extensions to Thunderbird.
>
> Some companies have trademarked their favicon(s).  There's more  
> information here:
> http://www.score.org/60_Guide_Brand_Favicon.html
>
> Also, if you go to that Mozilla site and click on the favicon,  
> you'll see that they've added some information about the website.
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
>
> Bill
>
>
> Valerie Sutton wrote:
>>
>> These Favicons are really interesting...they must hold data that  
>> states that they can only be used on one domain name or something,  
>> because I tried to place the same Flavicon already placed in the  
>> signwriting.org directory, into the signbank.org directory, and you  
>> would have thought there would be no problem, but it doesn't show  
>> up under two different domain names...only the first one...smile...
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
>> ---------
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 21, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
>>
>>> It is frostvillage.com. I still have a ton of work to do with the  
>>> SW section of it, but I am waiting/working on a plugin to make  
>>> editing SW for my website easier. But you can see my iceman  
>>> favicon on any of the pages now. :-)
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> On Dec 21, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>>>
>>>> What about for your web pages? Can you give me a link to a web  
>>>> page on your site with the iceman flavicon?
>>>>
>>>> Val ;-)
>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 21, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That is great because I was worried that you'd have to do each  
>>>>> of them yourself, which would be a LOT of work since you have  
>>>>> several pages.
>>>>>
>>>>> Adam
>>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 21, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Guess what! The Favicon Generator software has somehow built  
>>>>>> in, all your instructions below, Adam, so if you generate your  
>>>>>> Favicon with their software, it produces a file called  
>>>>>> Favicon.ico, and somehow if you put the file into the main  
>>>>>> directory of your site, it automatically installs it...on all  
>>>>>> the web pages that have signwriting.org...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Take a look at:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.SignWriting.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am amazed to say it seems to be on all signwriting.org web  
>>>>>> pages...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I am keeping your instructions below, Adam, because I can  
>>>>>> see that without that software, they are needed!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many thanks once again -  Val ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ------
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Dec 21, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Adam Frost wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I know that you use Dreamweaver to do you webpages, so here is  
>>>>>>> a short tutorial of adding Favicons with Dreamweaver. ;-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When you are editing the page that you want to add the  
>>>>>>> Favicon, go to the Insert menu and click on Head Tags > Links.
>>>>>>> This will open up a new dialog box to put you Favicon.
>>>>>>> In Href box, put the link to the Favicon.
>>>>>>> In the Rel box type: Shortcut Icon.
>>>>>>> Hit ok.
>>>>>>> You have added your first Favicon!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Adam
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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