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Which one is your favorite '''I'd like to thank everyone once again for their submissions. I'm grateful for all the time and why?effort people put into this. I'm also encouraged by seeing everyone's enthusiam for OrthodoxWiki. I wish I could award everyone a prize!'''

Do you have ideas for logos you donIt't have the technical know-how s nice to create?<br>etc.------------------------------==Opinions==At some point, could there be see something of a no-more-submissions-please-vote kinda thing? Perhaps people aren't voting because they may think something better will come along soon... -- consensus emerging with regard to [[User:PistevoHappyGrevling|oeaHappyGrevling]] 19:46's "SealLogo1." I concur with this judgment. I think it looks dignified and professional, while capturing the Orthodox character and international scope of OrthodoxWiki. It's challenging to produce not only something that is of professional qulity, 23 Oct 2005 (EDT)but also something which really captures the mission.

:Hi oea, I think My only hesitation is that's a good idea. Already, I've put d love to see it brightened up a note that submissions will stay open through Novbit, especially the greenish band behind the letters. 13thWe could definitely work with it as is, though. I donAccording to [[User:Joe Rodgers|Joe]]'t think we'll go much beyond that. The deadline will prob. be soon after that. s suggestion, I'll prominently announce it once it gets closer to the date, then we'll have some time d also like to decide together. ask if [[User:FrJohnHappyGrevling|FrH.G. John]]would be willing to donate the black and white version for use on letterhead.

Since IOf course, if anyone else would like to formally donate their logos to OrthodoxWiki, we'm going d love to be away at the close of submissions (and probably the close of voting), I submit my vote as the first logo by HappyGrevling (world, with cross superimposed, with scroll around it); with big thumbs up to his other twokeep them on hand for any future use. -- [[User:Pistevo|oea]] 00:23, 31 October 2005 (CST):Sorry for fuzziness - the vote went We don't want OWiki's visual identity to ScrollLogobecome too dispersed, "big thumbs but who knows what will come up" referred to SealLogo1 and 2. -- [[User:Pistevo|oea]] 00:09, 3 November 2005 (CST)?

GotchaThanks again to everybody! Yours in Christ, thanks Pistevo! [[User:FrJohn|Fr. John]]14:19, November 16, 2005 (CST)

HappyGrevling has submitted a potential winner, I think - I mean his most recent one, with the cross lying diagonally P. My vote goes to this oneS. - Inspired by [[User:GuldfiskenJoe_Rodgers|GuldfiskenJoe]] 11's four-fold description of OrthodoxWiki, I've added a couple bullet points to [[OrthodoxWiki:12, 3 November 2005 (CST)About]].

=== Votes:Danny ===Although I would like to vote for my own logos, It would be a waste of This is now fully supported in Internet Explorer 7 (not just when you bookmark a contest if the nicest looking one(s) were't accepted. Don't get me wrong, they are all nicepage, but I would have to go with HappyGrevling's one (also in the slanted 3d cross with 'www.OrthodoxWiki.org' over it in a curve styletabs and address bar). I'd just have to go with that one. God Bless Everyone -- [[User:Danny]] 00:23, 15 November 2005

=== Votes[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon Favicons] must be valid ico files, or images which can later be converted into ico files, and have a size of 16x16 [http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Logo_contest#Rules]. --[[User:Arbible|Arbible]] 16:05, November 16, 2005 (CST) :Yep, I was thinking about that too. If you'd like to submit something that's great. Not sure what the best approach would be to reducing the new logo to 16 x 16! If we come up with something nice, I'll stick it into the new [[OrthodoxWiki:Searching#The_OrthodoxWiki_Searchbar|Firefox searchbar extension]] too! [[User:FrJohn|Fr. John]] :P.S. I just submitted this to Mozilla for inclusion in the Firefox search plugins page (http://mycroft.mozdev.org/).:P.P.S. Hey! It's already up there -- cool! (See http:Constantine =//mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=orthodox&submitform=Find+search+plugins):P.P.P.S. Hey, thanks for the WikiCities Logo Contest link. I had no idea other wiki projects were doing this kind of thing. ::''> If you'd like Baker 1 to submit something that's great''::Thanks Father and congratulations on the new look! I would receive a blessing by doing so, but I am not a graphic designer (you can tell from my very humble contributions sent to you some weeks ago via a 'logo submission' Hotmail account: the anonymous [http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/OrthodoxWiki_talk:Logo_Submissions/archive#OOO_WWW_Logo OOO WWW Logo] and [http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/OrthodoxWiki_talk:Logo_Submissions/archive#Circle_Logos Circle Logos] :-).::I can resize the current logo to 16X16 in PaintShop Pro, but as you have rightly mentioned, this won't produce good results. Perhaps HappyGrevling can quickly design a 16X16 ''matching'' icon with just the circle and 2 the cross inside it (and maybe also BeHappyGrevling 2using fewer colours)? Microsoft and other interested parties provide detailed guidelines on how to produce such "miniature" versions by reducing icon detail and focusing on distinguishing features,3 etc. (for Windows XP and 4. My personal preference is Baker 2the forthcoming Vista, but the same principles would apply to favicons)::I vote personally liked Baker's second icon for BeHappyGrevling 3its elegance and simplicity, and the way it uses different shades of the same colours. However, I think HappyGrevling's winning logo "''really captures the mission''" of OrthodoxWiki in a far better way than any of the other submissions. ::With my prayerful best wishes, --[[User:ConstantineArbible|Arbible]] 18:23, November 16, 2005 (CST):23 Bulgarian TimeThanks, everyone, for the kind words. I agree that there were a lot of excellent logo submisisons. I just created and uploaded a .png image we could use as a favicon (not sure how to make it a .ico). - [[User:HappyGrevling|HappyGrevling]] ::The following png2ico converter program might help: http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/::Thank you very much. In Christ, --[[User:Arbible|Arbible]] 15 :59, November 17, 2005(CST) I have successfully converted your file using the above tool, but the system won't allow me to upload it. You can retrieve it from (right-click to save):http://staff.bath.ac.uk/mpsmnkb/Temp/favicon.ico (It should be copied to the root folder of OrthodoxWiki.) God Bless. ::Thanks everyboyd. I'll work on this soon. [[User:FrJohn|Fr. John]] ''OK. Finally figured this out -- the .htaccess file was interfering with the template accessing the favicon. Anyway, I also downloaded a free little program called [http://www.iconempire.com/free-icon-editor/ Iconomaker] in order the make the background transparent instead of white. Finally, I've changed the icon for Firefox/Mycroft search plugin too (using a transparent .gif), and sent an update to the Mozilla site. You may have to clear your browser's cache to see the new favicon. If you already have the search plugin enabled and want the new icon, you have to find your Firefox/Mozilla profile and delere the OrthodoxWiki entries in the "searchplugins" folder. If you don't have it already, why not? You can get it from [http://orthodoxwiki.org/tools/ here].