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A favicon? That’ll be £585 please.

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Re: A favicon? That’ll be £585 please.

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Post by bad_user »

razzaj wrote: post #3

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

     based out of the UK
Why? The seem willing to pay for favicons :)

     favicon generation:   £0
     installation:         £200
     1-year email support: £200
     --------------------------
     TOTAL (*):            £400
     Savings (*):          £185

     * VAT not included

Re: A favicon? That’ll be £585 please.

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Post by bad_user »

corin_ wrote: post #6
bad_user wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Well yes, that and the original maintenance cost doubled.

PS: if you pay attention, right now I am laughing really, really loud, so you might hear me.

Re: A favicon? That’ll be £585 please.

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Post by electrichead »

You know, making an effective favicon probably would take a lot of time. There is just not enough room. I would say it is akin to shoving a complex program into a handful of bytes.

That being said, this particular favicon was not so much designed as resized, and so I totally agree that they got ripped off!

Re: A favicon? That’ll be £585 please.

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Post by larrik »

1) They said that the favicon was not quoted from the contracter separately. Clearly the listed price is from some weird government formula. (Although, the original document DOES list it separately)

2) I'll bet something like Google's favicon cost WAY more than that.

3) 600 pounds isn't all that much when consulting work hourly rates are compared against it, and is practically nothing if they paid an actual designer.

It's easy to say "I could do that in 5 minutes." (cite: from the email exchange) But, could you? Including the design? And making sure after you shrunk it down it still looked okay? There's a good chance you'll need to go in there and draw each pixel by hand to make it look right (and it better be right).

Favicons are important, it's a mistake to believe they are always a 5 minute project.

(edited to add "always" to the last sentence)

Re: A favicon? That’ll be £585 please.

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Post by spxdcz »

larrik wrote: post #18

1) They said that the favicon was not quoted from the contracter separately. Clearly the listed price is from some weird government formula. (Although, the original document DOES list it separately) 2) I'll bet something like Google's favicon cost WAY more than that. 3) 600 pounds isn't all that much when consulting work hourly rates are compared against it, and is practically nothing if they paid an actual designer.…

True, but this DOES look like a five minute project. I just screen-grabbed their large logo, put it into Photoshop, reversed the colors and reduced it to 16x16, and it looks almost exactly the same as their icon - no pixel-pushing required. Sure, the colors aren't perfect, but any semi-decent graphic designer could produce that favicon (from the original logo) in 10 minutes maximum. It's not a complicated face, or anything that uses sub-pixel rendering, or anything like that.

EDIT: Here's my 30 second 'inverse and crop' favicon next to their £585 favicon. Not much pixel-pushing going on there... http://fanranked.com/ico_favicon.png

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