Question about 'bookmarks'

[David E. Gervais]

Before I save them all as individual gif images.. I'm still flushing out some ideas.. here is the latest style..



Also, in the process of making sure the icons represent the latest links I found some were dead links, or site non existant..

clesto.com, fungow.com, hyperlinkomatic.com, ma.gnolia.com, newsvine.com and onlywire.com are all bad links, also, the netscape link points to the new 'propeller.com' and the AOL version of Netscape. I made an icon for each.

Let me know what you think, cheers!

P.S. Mindi want me to name them "bookmark001.gif.. to bookmark041.gif" or would you prefer to send me the original gifs that I can simply replace?

[Mindi]

Actually those are better..I think they're more clear. I'll try to audit the links......we're new to doing the code in vb for this particular feature so I wouldn't be surprised if there's some formatting error as not all of the sites submit info the same way. As far as naming them, it would be easiest just to name them whatever service they are (digg.gif, clesto.gif, etc) and I can change any possible name from that....I think most of them I just gave the service's name.

[David E. Gervais]

OK, attached is a zip with all the single .gif icons and a "_Blank.png" (which is an alpha channel ping image you can use to overlay on any 16x16 icon to make it fit the new style.)

If you have trouble using the _blank.png you can always send me an email and I'll help.

Cheers!

BookmarkIconsFIX.zip

[David E. Gervais]

Mindi, I have a question.. Did you need/want a 'Highlight' (mouseover) transparent gif for these bookmarks?

Cheers!

I went ahead and made one in case..

[Mindi]

I'll have to look if the software will allow that by default.....it's part of the vb software and not a modification so I don't know if it will do that out of the box. BTW, thank you for the png, I made three additional buttons for the links that were broken as 3 of them just had a coding error in the link. A couple others though were gone already and netscape did indeed change their bookmarking tool to propeller.

[David E. Gervais]

You are most welcome,.. I know from experience that a 'template' or blank version of a sprite/image/icon comes in handy.. Like the avatars I make, I have the blank frame with the shiny top as a transparent .png. most of the time I just need to find a pic, crop and/or resize and overlay the template.. poof! I got an avatar.. (I save as .gif and of course set the color 255,0,255 to transparent. I also use an optimized pallet for each avatar.)

hmmm.. maybe I'll post my avatar frame in the avatar thread and see if others want to join the fun.

Cheers!