btw tweak, I like your approach for something other than the LFS icon, but i all of a sudden realised that the helmet might be mistaken for the R from the rfactor logo?

lol rfactor Helmet can be flipped around in the other direction. But ehh, I see what you mean. Going to try the other ideas now

I'm trying to put my icon as my avatar on this forum, but it just says it's an 'invalid url'
Here's the link:
http://www.lfsworld.net/isonline.Lautsprecher[NOR].gif

well, besides that, your idea will never work, becaues the forum will download the image and store it, so then it would always show the status of the time the image was downloaded.

Hi ,
maybe u can use this ?

Pit

offline

Online

spectating

Symbols from trucker tachograph.

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I'm trying to put my icon as my avatar on this forum, but it just says it's an 'invalid url'
Here's the link:
http://www.lfsworld.net/isonline.Lautsprecher[NOR].gif

I get the same thing, but with the signature line here. But on another vBulletin board, I get this:

@Victor: Dunno if it's a bug or what, but I get same icon for spectating, pits and racing

This one::eclipsee_

that's correct. I used that one for all 'online' status's atm, since these icons are pretty much temporary.

Is it possible to have options for 3 sizes? A 16x16 icon, with the best will in the world, will never convey to a non-LFSer, enough info without some additional "room", except to other LFSers who will recognise the icon immediately. Rather than miss an opportunity for a bit of free advertising...

Here is one other idea.

Have lots more to come.

I like those very much, Tweak.
As Sam said, to a non LFS-er it would be a mistery, but nothing better can be done with 16x16 icons.

I like those, Tweaks! What about UserBar statuses? They'd rock!

Quote from BlackEye :

but nothing better can be done with 16x16 icons.

Yeah that's the thing, it is very limited space

Quote from SamH :

I like those, Tweaks! What about UserBar statuses? They'd rock!

What's UserBar statuses??

EDIT: oh

Anyways, my other idea (kind of like userbars) is that there should be a longer image so you can see text. For example, something like these 64 x 16 images Doing these makes it possible to use a nice looking image on any background color (these are made for white, but the edges can be put to hard pixels)

Nice ones, tweak .

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One thing that imho could be a little better is the signs, "online", "offline", "spectating" and "in pits". Why online, wouldn't "racing" be more descriptive and, uhm well, better because you are kind of online when you are specating or pits

I wanted to put "RACING ONLINE" in there or something, but I'd have to increase the width. I've made some other versions here:

But Victor would like it to say "LFS" somehow if possible. Eghh, lotsa ideas

And in trying to make the LFS theme similar, the "LFS" icon is placed on these. But since it is only available (and only looks good) on a black background, I've made these ones dark. And used some kind of 'light' on the end to help I guess

It's not easy coming up with something perfect. And even that icon is the old LFS logo, and the yellows and blues are no longer used, so it may or may not make sense even if the logo is used.

EDIT: And as an alternative, just the left side is black /w logo with a light version bar

I think that the biggest problem is trying to convey 4 different types of status in a 16x16 pixels. One idea would be to have the 16x16 pixel icon just have online/offline information. The larger icons could however have all 4 status types.

Anyway, is it really important to know that someone is in the pits or spectating? If I see someone that I want to talk to, all I need to know is that they are online. Chances are that they are racing or about to race. Right?

my white attempt

tweaks, your darks ones are nice too

btw, is that 16px icon too small & fuzzy?

Hey dudes, i dont get it xD

Edit. Something is wrong with my skype status..

Quote from Victor :

tweaks, your darks ones are nice too

"Hard" corners now, so they can be used on any background.

Each are 1.3kb in size.

EDIT: Or here is 2 "offline" versions.

EDIT2: Test

Quote from Blas89 :

Hey dudes, i dont get it xD

Edit. Something is wrong with my skype status..

This thread is about having the ability to show your online status on other webpages, like forums. You can do this by using the following url, which will return an image : http://www.lfsworld.net/isonline.Blas89.gif ( )

About your skype status - check your options. You probably have the option to make yourself visible on the web turned off?

Quote from Tweaker :

"Hard" corners now, so they can be used on any background.

Each are 1.3kb in size.

EDIT: Or here is 2 "offline" versions.

neato - I've put that set online now.

There can be other versions, like samh's userbar suggestion, but for now it's about time to sleep
Keep suggestions coming of course.

Couldnt get skype status work, and everything is visible

Another idea the wheel from a FZR

Nice, thx Victor and Tweaker.