user iconVlasta on May 1st 2011
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topic iconMay 2011 - month of Artists

the wish-granting month

The icon and cursor gallery is the largest portion of this web site. Over the years, lots of professional and amateur artists have contributed over 1000 cursor sets and over 250 icon sets. A big thank you goes to everyone, who contributed original art.

This month, I would like to make the site better for icon and cursor authors. Please suggest features to add to the web.

The best suggestions should be very useful to the artist and very easy to implement for me. Maybe we will find some of those.

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user iconVlasta on May 10th 2011 0

Here is the first bit. The individual cursor pages were modified and if you put the mouse cursor over the preview image, its background changes to black.

There are also other small changes. The most important one is that the hot spot cross-hair is not part of the preview image anymore and it is part of the background instead. You may need to refresh the pictures if they look wrong. The animated gifs are now using transparency, but there will be artifacts on the black background in IE and Chrome.

user iconTeddy on May 11th 2011 0

Thanks that's great!

user iconVlasta on May 11th 2011 0

The next addition is the ability to subscribe to users' blogs. There is a Subscribe button on the main page of each blog and another one under the individual entries. There are also new links to RSS feeds and buttons to share blog entries on Digg, StumbleUpon and Facebook.

user iconTeddy on May 12th 2011 0

Nicee ๐Ÿ˜Š

user iconJDDellGuy on May 16th 2011 0

Profile Pictures woud be incredibly awesome.

And...I'll do some dreaming as well.

I'd like to be able to use my emoticons with simpler tags. Perhaps a spot where I can edit what tags effect which emoticons.
In other words, I'd like to have an editor in which I can say that [em:smile] = icon-image/5300-16x16x32.png image

In the editor, I would perhaps have entries such as:

[em:<insert-emoticon-name-here>] = [[image:icon-image/5300-16x16x32.png]]

(Or whatever emoticon I am using.)

And an online/application .gif/.png animator perhaps. Those web graphics do not get much attention here with the current tools. It would be something in addition to the icons and cursors.

I am thinking outside the box here, lol.

user iconTeddy on May 16th 2011 0

Profile pics would be great
And jd that might cause even more spam than we have now, rights like these should just be given to trusted members of this site

user iconVlasta on May 20th 2011 0

Two improvements are finished:

  • Search results ordering was added to the search result pages in the gallery.
  • Photographs can be uploaded on the profile pages. Please use real photos or illustrations if possible. Max. size is 192x256 - photos will be resized if they are bigger. Transparent .pngs may be used.
user iconTeddy on May 21st 2011 0

Awesome, thanks!

user iconVlasta on May 31st 2011 0

The end of the month is here and here goes the final change - a small tweak of the smileys bar. To add an icon to the bar, visit any icon page and click an "Add" button under the icon properties.

You may also need to refresh a page before opening the comment form, because I had to make modifications to a javascript file. Otherwise, the added icons may not be visible.

user iconJDDellGuy on June 2nd 2011 0

Vlasta you are INCREDIBLE! Thank you! The feature that I wanted most! ๐Ÿ˜Š Now I need to create an emoticon set that will show it off well. ๐Ÿ˜

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