Archive for December, 2008
Favicon – Favorites Icon
Dec 23rd
Favicon (pronounced fav-eye-con) is short for ‘Favorites Icon’ or ‘Website Icon’. They are small images we see near the address bar on the browser.
Almost all the professionally developed websites have a Favicon. They are the web counterpart of desktop Icon.
A webmaster can install a favicon in a website by placing a favicon.ico file in its root directory. Eg. www.google.com/favicon.ico or www.kwelbytes.com/favicon.ico
When we hit a URL the browser automatically try to fetch the favicon from url/favicon.ico. If it finds one it displays it on the address bar, else it displays the default image.
There are lots of websites which provide free favicons. eg freefavicon. Rather then downloading a prebuild favicon on can also build a custom one. You do that by providing a custom image which is converted to the ïco” format. Many websites provide this as free service. This service is also called Favicon generator. eg favicon.co.uk,. There are some site which help create a favicon from scratch eg. favicon.cc
Travian – online strategy game.
Dec 23rd
I recently started exploring Travian. Its a online strategy game, or one could only version of Age of empires and Caesar. Though it is not as graphical or musical as the desktop versions but it has all the other features like the resources, buildings, army, wars. Begin an online portal, there can be hundreds if not more player playing at the same time.
In travian the player start as a chief of a village. Almost all the villages are same, they have some resource where you can extract wood, clay, iron and crop. The village center has some building area where we can build new buildings like, granary, barracks, palace etc Typical strategy game stuff. In the travian world you have neighboring villages which is owned by fellow players. You can interact with these players and trade resources. One can also form alliances. And the feature list goes on and on.
Travian is served in many sub domains so that the no of players can be distributed. They also have different servers for different countries. Eg. s1.travian.com, s2.travian.com , s1.travian.us, s1.travian.ca etc.
My village is in s2.travian.com. Its called NicoBar (The land of Nicos.). My nickname kmanicka.