New signature guidelines

[SonicAdvDX]

Wait, were those pixel guidelines just for images or for the entire signature all together?

 

[Corry]

Thought I'd give this topic a bump, for those who haven't seen it, or have forgotten.

 

[Corry]

Wait, were those pixel guidelines just for images or for the entire signature all together?

I believe the pixel guidelines are for the image, but the overall sig shouldn't be too huge, either. Yours is fine how it is now.

 

[Artemis]

Arty rules...

 

[Corry]

Are you spamming Mister?

 

[Corry]

Bump, for those who have not read this thread.

 

[hobbes28]

Bump again with an addition to the signature guidelines. We've been noticing a growing number of flash or animated gif type signatures. Where they may not be that large in size for each individual signature, after you have a page full of them, it starts to bog down the pages for the folks on dial up. That and they are pretty distracting and take away from the streamlined look of the site. We would like for members to refrain from using them in their signature blocks.

 

[df3photo]

Ill check mine, but i belive i changed it last time you yelled at me....

 

[hobbes28]

Your's is fine.

 

[PlasticSpanner]

Bump again with an addition to the signature guidelines. We've been noticing a growing number of flash or animated gif type signatures. Where they may not be that large in size for each individual signature, after you have a page full of them, it starts to bog down the pages for the folks on dial up. That and they are pretty distracting and take away from the streamlined look of the site. We would like for members to refrain from using them in their signature blocks.

Corry's got an animated sig!


Ner ner ne ner ner!:greenpbl:

 

[hobbes28]

Geez, Chris... you sound like the kids at preschool. :greenpbl:

The reason we're so funny about the signatures is because they can get out of hand so quickly and bog down the server. We are well aware that people can make their signatures small in viewable and file sizes to help, but there are others that don't know how to optimize for web viewing too. Not like that's a bad thing, it just makes it easy for the pages to take forever to load. I've been to forums where they allow 640x480 signature sizes with flash animation and they take forever to load, even on cable. Just don't want that to happen here.

 

[PlasticSpanner]

Just stirring it for the girl! (she loves me really!)

Can't you just replace innapropriate sigs with a default message asking the owner to look at the guidelines & change it?

Edit: There is another very good reason. In the UK most Broadband accounts have a bandwidth/download limit. Animated and large file sized sigs will eat into this limit very quickly!

 

[hobbes28]

Yes we can. We chose to send a reminder PM to the user instead of that but, worst case, we can delete it completely.

Yeah, eating up all your bandwidth for some signatures would be horrible. Although, I would turn off images in that case... you know... surf the internet text only. uke:

 

[Corry]

Just stirring it for the girl! (she loves me really!)

Can't you just replace innapropriate sigs with a default message asking the owner to look at the guidelines & change it?

Edit: There is another very good reason. In the UK most Broadband accounts have a bandwidth/download limit. Animated and large file sized sigs will eat into this limit very quickly!

Hey, Squirrelly...get is chat, so I can kick you back out! :greenpbl:

So...wait...this is the first I've heard of this...so my sig has to go? :scratch:

 

[PlasticSpanner]

I would turn off images in that case... you know... surf the internet text only. uke:

You'd have to ask members of TPF to describe their photos then!