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Address Bar Icon!?!

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roccopeterbilt
Posts: 101 - Karma: 9
A lot of sites lately have icons in the address bars that some sites call favicons, but i noticed newschoolers does not.  This is a feature that does make sites look a bit more legit.  I'm sure many of you frequent SAC and whiskeymilitia, and have seen the icons there.  I think it is time that NS upgrade and I have took the liberty of helping make the first step.  Using an online site (which I am not affiliated with or endorsing) I have created some NS favicons.  I'm very new to this, but thought if it was already done it would be easy enough for the site manager to try out.  I'm sure there are tons of people out there far more artistic than I that could do this better, but it's a start.  I do have a problem in that I am not sure how to upload the files needed.  If anyone can direct me I will upload them immediately.
Oct 18 2007 1:33AM
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Silence
Posts: 16030 - Karma: 150
sweet man..just go to media/pictures/add photo, or upload photo

then when you have the address of the photo itself, post it up here in between [img][/img] tags

Oct 18 2007 3:16AM
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roccopeterbilt
Posts: 101 - Karma: 9
Thanks for the tip, but what I need to post isn't just an image.  It's a file that gives details on how to load the item as well as a set of html instructions (best way I can some it up) Can you load non image files?  All I created was an NS logo pic that is the size of a 16x16 pixel pic.

Oct 20 2007 3:59PM
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Silence
Posts: 16030 - Karma: 150
i dont believe you can load non-image pics, maybe upload the file to a remote hosting site and then post the link here, alternately speak with nopoles or one of the mods and you could send them the file via email or sometging
Oct 20 2007 5:19PM
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JGP.
Posts: 2785 - Karma: 474
yep definitely a good idea...
Oct 20 2007 10:39PM
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freezed
Posts: 12973 - Karma: 500
NS already has that. I see it in my browser at least. I'm using firefox on a PC.
Oct 21 2007 1:55AM
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Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,860
i got firefox and i see one to
Oct 21 2007 2:26AM
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cofreeskier
Posts: 3189 - Karma: 15
Yeah there definitely was one but its not showing up now for me for some reason...oh well
Oct 21 2007 3:39AM
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Silence
Posts: 16030 - Karma: 150
yeah just noticed i have one on firefox too..

check it:

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Oct 21 2007 6:39AM
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snwbrdmilf
Posts: 22441 - Karma: 2,806
I have Firefox and I don't see one...
Oct 21 2007 9:50AM
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Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
Firefox is weird. Sometimes it shows it, other times it doesn't but it was just updated recently and I have seen it before.
Oct 21 2007 10:55AM
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Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,860
Sdfghjkl;mine is fancier then your little icon
Oct 21 2007 12:02PM
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Silence
Posts: 16030 - Karma: 150
haha icon pwnage
Oct 21 2007 5:52PM
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roccopeterbilt
Posts: 101 - Karma: 9
I see some of you with firefox (which I use) are showing the icon in your quick bookmark line. This is actually why I wanted it, mine is just icons (title is just a space).  NS however comes up as a blank page(default icon).  Either way, I noticed all of the examples posted show the NS icon ONLY in the quick bookmark line, NOT in the address bar or on your tab as it should be, even though all had NS pages loaded. There are also 2 different icons shown, which makes me think you might have manually changed them yourselves.  Here's what it looks like on my computer, and yes it's photoshopped.

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Still Icon pwnage Silence?!?
Oct 21 2007 10:06PM
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Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
It use to before the switch and no it's not photoshopped and we didn't set it ourselves.
Oct 21 2007 10:16PM
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roccopeterbilt
Posts: 101 - Karma: 9
The photoshop comment was a joke about my own pic. If it used to be like that (I can't remember it) let's get it back mods.
Oct 21 2007 10:44PM
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Silence
Posts: 16030 - Karma: 150
haha i think you got icon pwnd now - i certainly didn't make this one though, came up automatically when i put it as a link on firefox
Oct 22 2007 1:38AM
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Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,860
i didnt make mine. at first it was just blank and eventually an icon popped up
Oct 22 2007 6:29PM
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Microcosm
Posts: 4765 - Karma: 153
It was there until the site was updated, then it disappeared.
Oct 22 2007 7:59PM
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caucasian_chad
Posts: 4078 - Karma: 3,625
Yeah, it's still in my bookmark, but not the address bar.
Oct 22 2007 8:33PM
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Goobie
Posts: 615 - Karma: 30
i have Firefox and i don't have one
Oct 22 2007 8:38PM
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Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
Mine is now the icon from craigslist. Firefox is easily confused.
Oct 22 2007 8:41PM
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Microcosm
Posts: 4765 - Karma: 153
true, it's still in my address bar as well.
Oct 22 2007 9:00PM
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doublexl
Posts: 8407 - Karma: 27
me neither.
Oct 22 2007 9:55PM
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JGP.
Posts: 2785 - Karma: 474
it was in my quick favorites before the switch, now theres no icon.. :(
Oct 22 2007 11:56PM
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Holte
Posts: 10742 - Karma: 7,818
that's odd. There always used to be one for me. I didn't notice until now that it's gone. I'm in Firefox, btw.
Oct 23 2007 1:39AM
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.KYLE.
Posts: 1891 - Karma: 59
i had it for a while, now its gone tho
Oct 23 2007 11:16AM
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roccopeterbilt
Posts: 101 - Karma: 9
So it looks like a lot of people had it, and now nobody does, right? 

Can we get it back?

If someone has it, now, on the new version of the site, can you please post a screencapture with it in the addy bar.  My damn quick link looks so gay with a blank page there.
Oct 31 2007 7:09PM
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toominator
Posts: 4792 - Karma: 120
I dont know if I've ever seen it, im using firefox too, but I've got a firefox theme so it might not show because of that?
Oct 31 2007 8:06PM
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