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General => Announcements and forum stuff => Introductions => Topic started by: Mark Plant on 31 March 2009, 09:50:37 AM

Title: Hello and favicon
Post by: Mark Plant on 31 March 2009, 09:50:37 AM

Hello people!

I'm into the Russian Civil War in a big way. 15mm Peter Pig.

Halfway through a Maximilian Adventure army too, in 25mm Foundry, that I really must get round to finishing.

The Forum really needs a favicon though. You know, the little icons that show up beside your bookmarks and in your tabs. Is there some technical reason why we can't have one here?

Mark

Title: Re: Hello and favicon
Post by: Driscoles on 31 March 2009, 11:40:23 AM

Hello Mark,

welcome. I know your website and it is excellent.

Cheers
Björn

Title: Re: Hello and favicon
Post by: Bako on 02 April 2009, 04:53:41 AM

Hello and welcome!

By favicon do you mean the icon right beside the website url that's a sheet of loose-leaf?

Title: Re: Hello and favicon
Post by: Mark Plant on 02 April 2009, 09:32:54 AM

Yes. Most web-sites go for something a bit funkier and that represents their site a bit better.

It's really easy to do: you just put a 16 by 16 file called favicon.ico on the root directory (where the home page is).

The hard part is deciding what to use as a logo.

Title: Re: Hello and favicon
Post by: Plynkes on 02 April 2009, 11:12:38 AM

Mark, I'm sure there is no technical reason why we don't have a favicon. It has simply not come up before, as nobody considered it important. You may be in for a wait before you see one, though. The website owner (the Prof) is on an extended trip with limited intenet access, so non-critical stuff like this is kind of on the back burner until he gets back.

I had a bit of a look at your site. I'm curious as to the phrase 'pygmy wars.' I've never heard this used before, is it an established name for those conflicts (which I confess I know next to nothing about), or is it something you invented yourself? What do pygmies have to do with it?

Title: Re: Hello and favicon
Post by: Mark Plant on 03 April 2009, 05:09:28 AM

It comes from Winston Churchill, who on the WWI armistice is reputed to have said something along the lines of "The war of the giants has ended; the wars of the pygmies have begun." My site covers those wars post-1918 that Winston was so rude about.

And we game with little tiny men.

Title: Re: Hello and favicon
Post by: Plynkes on 03 April 2009, 09:25:00 AM

Aha, I see. Thanks, Mark. Nice to learn something new.