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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by Taff Agent of kaos
can we have a <poppy> smiley??????please??????
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by Not-so-bald-eagle
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Once the bus has run over it, it should look passibly like a poppy
 
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by anhaga
I should have raised this issue long ago.
Over on the particularly Canadian thread we've been using the for years to pay our respects to our sister and brothers who fall in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Fairly recently I suggested a location for British condolences ( F19585?thread=6746595 ) and there was certainly interest.
Would it not be appropriate to have a <poppy>? How difficult could it be?
I'm a painter myself. If someone will direct me on formats and such, I would be more than happy to come up with something if no one more experienced in smiley construction has a moment.
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by Taff Agent of kaos
Mal is the smiley queen, pop her a line and she may point you in the right direction
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by anhaga
Oh. You have noticed.
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by taliesin
"Smileys need to follow a rather specific set of technical specifications in order to be used on the site:
* Smileys must be no higher than 16 pixels, because if they were any higher they would interfere with the text in conversations. There is no specific maximum width. Our longest is currently 67 pixels across; try not to exceed that.
* Although we understand everyone has a style of their own, for smileys we'd like to stick to the established 'House Style' where we can. That includes anti-aliasing to smooth the edges rather than leaving them in a pixelated style.
* Any image that is not rectangular will need to be anti-aliased to the each of the two background colours and then saved in 'gif89a' format with the background colour set to 'transparent'. The background colours used are blue (HEX number 000066) for the Classic (Goo) skin and white (HEX number FFFFFF) for the Alabaster and Brunel skins.
* We'll need two files in gif format for each smiley, one for the blue background named b_smileyname.gif, and one for the white background named w_smileyname.gif, where 'smileyname' is, obviously, the name of the smiley.
* Smileys must be optimised to make the files as small as possible, otherwise they increase the download time for conversation pages too much."
From http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/CommunityArtists-What
Got Gimp? http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by Menthol Penguin
i'm of school atm and a Ca so i'm more than happy to give it a go buts its up to the eds as to whether they put add new smileys i believe.
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by Xanatic
Or send them a package of cookies.
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by Taff Agent of kaos
Tal???
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by taliesin
Yes?
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by Taff Agent of kaos
post 6
straight over my head
sounds like video player instructions??? 
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by anhaga
Yes, I have gimp, Tal.
that doesn't look to hard, but based on an editor's note on another thread, it's not likely to happen any time soon, even if a volunteer put one together today.
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by Menthol Penguin
*cough*post 7*cough* and its half term next week. (truth be told i've done a rough version anyway, i guess it could always be added later )
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by anhaga
Well, Penguin, although it's not today, if you sent something to the editors next week I bet there would be a number of people quite grateful to you, even if the <poppy> didn't make it into threads until much later (although, I'm not sure why it has to take so long. It's only 256 pixels, after all )
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by taliesin
 @ Taff
Well, *I* didn't write it!
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by Menthol Penguin
I'll give it a go and send it in and let them know (i'll point them in the direction of this thread as well). Its not finished yet but i'll get it done
<<although, I'm not sure why it has to take so long. It's only 256 pixels, after all )>>
No idea why it takes so long actually
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by anhaga
 
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by Menthol Penguin
Before i let the CAs and Italics know I'll post it up on fotki so you can say what you do and don't like and let me know what you want me to change
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by taliesin
>>No idea why it takes so long actually<<
Probably something to do with approval by the 
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Posted Oct 22, 2009 by Menthol Penguin
just found this while looking at pics of poppies and though it appropriate
http://hazel8500.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/1111-2/
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