Signatures too large

**SpankMe** · 8th June 2005, 09:15

Many on dial-up are finding pages take too long to load. So can we keep the sig images down to a decent size. Max height should be about 80 pixals. Also animated gifs shpuld be under about 40k.

**Ixion** · 8th June 2005, 09:20

Remember also , in User CP -> Options, you can turn off the display of signatures (and other graphicy things), if you have a slow connection (or just don't want to see them)

**marty** · 8th June 2005, 09:25

while we're on the subject, some of the sigs run into one looooooong word, causng the page to become really wide - like this one.

http://www.nlrsystems.com/images/tu...turbo_fever.jpg http://www.bigccracing.com/estore/images/nosbottle.bmp http://www.nlrsystems.com/images/en...r_crank_kit.jpg http://www.nlrsystems.com/images/en..._valvetrain.jpg

**Hitcher** · 8th June 2005, 10:41

Good advice on a whole bunch of fronts. The old KISS technique can't be beat when it comes to communicating effectively.

Remember, just because you can doesn't mean that you should...

**White trash** · 8th June 2005, 12:16

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Remember, just because you can doesn't mean that you should...

A philosophy I've yet to master when it comes to stupid shit on a motorcycle.

**merv** · 8th June 2005, 12:58

When Wkid first started putting large signatures up I turned them off and never see any now so don't worry about them cluttering my pages.

**crashe** · 8th June 2005, 14:36

Originally Posted by Ixion

Remember also , in User CP -> Options, you can turn off the display of signatures (and other graphicy things), if you have a slow connection (or just don't want to see them)

Thank you for that wonderful tip....
Just done it and gonna see if that helps in downloading over the next few days.

**Hitcher** · 8th June 2005, 15:30

Originally Posted by crashe

Thank you for that wonderful tip

As the prostitute said to the leper...

**Velox** · 8th June 2005, 16:00

How do you put pics in your sig? I've tried "insert image" and cut and pasted it but it just comes up as a word and not a pic. Any clues?

**pyrocam** · 8th June 2005, 16:59

Originally Posted by Velox

How do you put pics in your sig? I've tried "insert image" and cut and pasted it but it just comes up as a word and not a pic. Any clues?

try the [img] tags
you need it hosted somewhere.

like mine is:

[*URL=www.pyrocam.com][IMG*]http://www.pyrocam.orcon.net.nz/KB/lolsigad.gif[/IMG] [/URL]

but take the *'s out

which is using a link on the image as well

**RiderInBlack** · 8th June 2005, 17:01

Thanks for that SM

People with big Sig Pic's have been taking-up too much of a page and slowing the loading time down. It will be a long time before I can get affordable broadband out here, so I would appreciate it if you guys and girls used a link or thumb-nail when posting big pic's/gif's/move clips (etc.) if it is not that important.