Basic Functions


Downloading and Setting up Fast Dial in Firefox

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Fast Dial Preferences

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Fast Dial Properties

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Logo Handling in Fast Dial and on UL (Applicable to all Fast Dial Versions)

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Using logos from this website

This Tutorial was created by mafi0z

Since updated and modified by Mafia_Penguin
with suggestions from chiaroscuro


This tutorial shows you how to add a custom image from this site.
What you need:
Firefox
Fast Dial extension for Firefox

1.) Make a folder to store your logos in, eg., Fast Dial Logos, in My Pictures (Or your OS equivelent, eg., Pictures on a Mac).

2.) Go to userlogos.org, and in the search box at the top, type in the URL (eg., google.com) of the site you want to have a logo for.
//userlogos.org/backgroundse uploaded to 
Picamatic

3.) Click on an image that matches your search.

4.) Right click the larger picture on the detailed information page that matches your color preference, and click "Save Image As..." to the "Fast Dial Logos" folder (or what you called your folder).

5.) Open the Fast Dial window and right click on the cell you have the logo for.
Click on the "Properties" button.
If you are making a new cell, simply click on the blank cell.

6.) If you are adding a new site, fill in the information If it is a site you already have a cell for, the information is already filled.

7.) Click the button with the three dots on it in the "Custom Image" field.

7.) Browse to the file in the box that comes up, and click OK. Click on "OK" in the Properties box.

8.) Wait for the logo to refresh. Be patient, this may take some time.

Once the file is loaded, enjoy your new logo.

Simple Instructions to Upload a Logo to Userlogos

TOP left of Frontpage go to Submit content/Logo

That is here
http://www.userlogos.org/node/add/logo


Here is the browse and upload part of that page
Do you not have that ?
Having filled out the different parts of the form then go to the box seen here
Browse first to your Logo on the hard disk, and once that information loaded click on Upload

That should be sufficient

It is worth noting that the Logos uploaded on this site should conform to the aspect ration of the other logos

Using Transparent Logos

Note: I decided to have two separate tutorials. One on having your fast dial fully transparent, and one on just using transparent logos (with a background color) ______________________________ Hey all! I've noticed that not everyone knows how to use transparent logos.. Some dont even know what they are, so ill do my best to explain. Logos which are Transparent do not have a set background. What does this mean? It means that the user is able to change the background color of the logo directly in Fast Dial! Here's an example using transparent logos to make fastdial all black: (Click to Englarge) Photobucket Here's an example using transparent logos to colorize fastdial: (Click to Englarge) Photobucket So how do you choose the background color of transparent logos? Follow these Steps: Setting up Fast Dial: 1. Go to you Fast Dial Preferences. 2. Change Scale Method to "default" 3. Go to "Appearance" Tab 4. Modify the following settings: Cell: transparent transparent Image: transparent transparent Note: This is optional! You may modify any field to your liking! (you may use "transparent" in any field)

Finding a Transparent Logo: To browse the transparent logos available on this site, do the following: 1. Click "Logos" in the Top Menu.
2. Select "Transparent" for the Theme.
3. Once you find the logo you need...Right click it and choose either: "Save Image As.." or "Copy Image Location"


Back to Fast Dial: 1. Right click a "cell" and go to its properties.. 2. Fill in the information, and choose Background color.
Click "OK" and you should be done. Note: If you will be using a single color for ALL your logos - it is better to choose that color in the "Image" field in the Appearance tab of Fast Dial Preferences, and use "transparent" for individual cells. (Firefox 3 !) _________________________________ If you want to make your fast dial boxes more round - read this: Link Post Questions and/or Comments in the Suggestions Forum.

Fully Transparent Logos

NOTE: Firefox 2 seems to have an issue using transparent background on the Logos. You can still use the logos - but you will have to choose a background color. FireFox 3 supports the logos being fully transparent, so the background may be seen. Note: If you do not want a fully transparent fast dial like in the example below, and just want to be able to use transparent logos see: Link. _________________________________ Hey all! In this tutorial you will learn how to make your FastDial look really cool by using transparent logos. Heres an example: (Click to Englarge) Photobucket So how do you Fast Dial to look like this? Follow these Steps: Setting up Fast Dial: 1. Go to you Fast Dial Preferences. 2. Change Scale Method to "default" 3. Go to "Appearance" Tab 4. Change the settings to the following: (Click to enlarge)

Finding a Transparent Logo: To browse the transparent logos available on this site, do the following: 1. Click "Logos" in the Top Menu.
2. Select "Transparent" for the Theme.
3. Once you find the logo you need...Right click it and choose either: "Save Image As.." or "Copy Image Location"


Back to Fast Dial: 1. Right click a "cell" and go to its properties.. 2. Fill in the information, and use "transparent" for Background color.
Click "OK" and you should be done. _________________________________ If you want to make your fast dial boxes more round - read this: Link Post Questions and/or Comments in the Suggestions Forum.

How to make a cell Transparent/Invisible/Blank in Fast Dial


This matter is discussed in a thread here


Basically in order to make a cell completely transparent it is recommended to load an entirely blank Logo into your Fast Dial Cell.

So

1. Download a blank Logo from UL.

From here or here.

2. And then in Properties advanced simply load in your saved Fully Transparent Blank Logo to the cell.


The cell will then be simply invisible.


You can possibly chose to have the Title of the Cell visible on hover to be able to identify the cell.

This is a good way to organise your Fast Dial page if you are more interested in seeing the Background Image than a number of Logos.


Some methods used to try to find high quality examples of Logos

Loosely based on the following by Gumanov


Some thoughts I have put together:

so looking for Logo for

URL

xxxx.com


First if practical get image from URL with right click View Image

That is the starting point.


First Google search

xxxx wiki (with or without com to suit)

Hoping that there is a logo on wikipedia.

Their logos are usually excellent

If there is one that saves a lot of time.


If not then Google search

xxxx logo (without com/org I find usually better, but try both to suit)

Image search and web search.

If you find something half useful then use the extension Tineye and see if you can get further clues


Also a tineye search using that first URL logo might find something.

Also any tineye searches of any logo you find may throw up something useful.

The lower quality the image means that usually tineye finds less matches.

The results of the tineye search always come up in a background tab.
You can see how many hits Tineye has made by looking at the tab.
So if zero can leave.

The default search is best match but biggest image in Tineye is also useful, but the results are sometimes disappointing.

I guess if you are getting really desperate you could try a

Google search

site:xxxx.com logo

web and image


That's about it.
Hope I didn't miss anything out

Lots of patience needed !

If you don't find a good logo there probably isn't one..........


Using Logos from UserLogos

In this tutorial I will teach you how to use to use logos found on this site.

in order for fast dial to use the logos on this site, they have to be downloaded to your computer. Let's make a folder that can store the logos that you download.
You can store the logo anywhere on your computer but "my pictures" and "my documents" are the two most common places to store logos.

I store my logos in my document and that is what i am going to show here but you can easily store them in my picures. If you want to store them in my pictures whenever I say to click on my documents click on my pictures instead.

Table of Contents
Create a folder to store your logos
Search for a logo on userlogos
download a logo to your computer
Use downloaded logos in fastdial


Create a folder to store your logos

Step #1
Click on the start menu and then click “My Documents”

 

Step #2

A window will appear. Right click on an empty space, then click on new, and then click on folder.

This will create the folder that we are going to put the logos in.

Step #3

On your keyboard hit the “Backspace” key and then type in “Fastdial logos” and then hit the enter key.


Step #4 (Search for a logo on userlogos)
Now that you have a folder to put the your logos in, we can go to userlogos and find some logos for it.

Open firefox and then go to the userlogos web site.

Step #5

On the front page there is a tab in the upper right-hand corner that says logos (highlighted in red in the picture), click on it.

Step #6

Now search for the logo that you want in the search box.

Step #7

If you see the logo that you want, click on it. If not go to the logo request forum (http://userlogos.org/forum/12) and ask someone to make the logo.


Step #8 (download a logo to your computer)

Next, a page will open that shows the logo that you want, except larger. Some pages will show several logos and others will just show logo.

This page has two logos:

Step #9

Right click on the image that you would like to use.

A menu will appear. Click on the “Save image as” button.

Step #10

A window will open that is titled “Save Image”. We will now use the folder that you created earlier.

Double click on your user name. (On my computer it is Ingalls).

Step #11

Now scroll down until you find a folder that is called documents.

Double click on it.

Step #12

We are now in the documents folder that we visited earlier in this tutorial. Find the folder that you made (It should be called Fastdial logos) and then double click on it.

Step #13

Now save the image by clicking “Save”


Step #13 (Use downloaded logos in fastdial)

Now we will add the logo to fast dial.

Open up a new tab by going to file and then clicking new tab or by typing CTRL + T on your keyboard.

Step #14

The fast dial page will appear.

Step #15

Find the website that you want the logo for and then right click on it. A menu will appear. Click on properties.

Step #16

A window will open that has the properties of the image. Click on the advanced tab.

Step #17

Click on the button that has three periods. (Highlighted below)

Step #18

In the window that opens, double click on the image that you want.

Step #19

Click “OK”

Step #20

There you go. You have just learned how to replace a screenshot with a logo.

Viewing Transparent Logos on UL

There have been a number of Stylish Styles Proposed which can be downloaded from this site

Black to Checkerboard

Checkerboard to Black

White to Black

The cupboard is a bit bare just now, everything is going to be redone

A message to let users know that this area has been cleared of content and new content is going to prepared in line with current Version of Fast Dial

Apologies

Many thanks

 

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