A favicon? That’ll be £585 please.

#1

Post by mathias » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 4:30 PM UTC

A favicon? That’ll be £585 please.
whatdotheyknow.com

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#2

Post by lachyg » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 4:40 PM UTC

That's disgraceful... I don't know what else to say.

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#3

Post by razzaj » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 4:43 PM UTC

Dude... where i am from... you ask such a question to the government they will laugh to your face ! should you insist security is called... If you come back you will be thrown in jail... On another note... a FAVICON generator website business startup anyone (of course based out of the UK)? lol

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#4

Post by corin_ » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 4:55 PM UTC

"I can advised [sic] you that the work needed to put the favicon live was complicated by an old environment (which has since been updated) that caused issues and extended the time taken to carry out the work."

What?

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#5

Post by bad_user » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 5:04 PM UTC

corin_ wrote: post #4

"I can advised [sic] you that the work needed to put the favicon live was complicated by an old environment (which has since been updated) that caused issues and extended the time taken to carry out the work." What?

You missed the clarification:

    I can confirm that that the old website 
    development environment was upgraded 
    from one server to two.

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#6

Post by corin_ » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 5:05 PM UTC

bad_user wrote: post #5

corin_ wrote: post #4

"I can advised [sic] you that the work needed to put the favicon live was complicated by an old environment (which has since been updated) that caused issues and extended the time taken to carry out the work." What?

You missed the clarification: I can confirm that that the old website development environment was upgraded from one server to two.

How does that have any impact on the cost of a favicon? Unless they were charged per FTP transfer...

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#7

Post by paulirish » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 5:06 PM UTC

Fantastical coincidence: the most expensive favicon.ico was charged to an organization whose branding is a lowercase 'ico'

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#8

Post by astrodust » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 5:07 PM UTC

corin_ wrote: post #4

"I can advised [sic] you that the work needed to put the favicon live was complicated by an old environment (which has since been updated) that caused issues and extended the time taken to carry out the work." What?

Maybe this is a euphemism for "bunch of old people who don't know how the internet works but were put on the web site steering committee anyway and made a bunch of of absurd requests that had to be fulfilled in order to get approval".

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#9

Post by astrodust » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 5:08 PM UTC

lachyg wrote: post #2

That's disgraceful... I don't know what else to say.

If you've never done work on a government contract you can imagine how this simple favicon might've gone through fifty revisions. On highly technical projects people with no technical skill tend to latch on to the little things they do understand and want to meddle with them endlessly.

This is the "Bike Shed Principle" or Parkinson's Law of Triviality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_Law_of_Triviality)

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#10

Post by jasondavies » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 5:09 PM UTC

Somewhat ironic that the favicon was for an organisation called ICO.