Sig Sizes - PLEASE READ BEFORE CREATING SIG'S

[barfastic]

i made a new sig 250hieght by 550 width, and im not allowed to upload it. what gives? its says im only allowed to upload 100x500 :S

[IFMU]

Yea that is a setting that hasn't been updated in the control panel since the rule change...... quite some time back. o_O

I will try to get in and fix that soon, bit busy.

If you can find someplace to host it, you can use the [ IMG] tags that way and it won't give you the hassle of the size there.
Or you can wait, but not sure how soon I will be able to get it situated correctly.
Sorry 'bout that.

[barfastic]

oh. kk im nto quite sure if i want a sig now. read all the flaming :P KEEP FORUMS CLEAN!

[topdog5050]

hmmm.....thanks for the heads up people.

[topdog5050]

wheres a good place to get avatars?

[SnW]

wheres a good place to get avatars?

Google \ avatars

[larryp7639]

IMO even H250 is too much.
Me thinks sig is meant to give the post a bit of personality.
Unfortunately, if you look at an average thread you'll see that ~half of the whole viewable screen does not consist of post contents, but sigs. People put just about anything to their sigs.

"Look i have 4 fans in my rig!"


Limit the max font size used in sigs to 1.
Currently it's only a recommendation. Size 1 should be perfectly readable at any sensible resolution used. But the most bugging feature one can find in a sig are the flicking/annoying animated gifs. I've seen several +500kB gifs animated in dozens of screens...

Here's a good example:
Username Lane-K's sig (294H x 502L)

- AMD A64 3700+ San Diego@2.9Ghz
- DFI NF 4 SLI-DR (Bios 704-2BTA)
- 2x 512Mo OCZ PC4800 Platinum Rev 1.0 (TCCD)
- 2x 6600GT 
- HDD Hitachi SATA2, 2x 160Go Raid0
- Creative SB Audigy
- Windows XP Pro 32 & 64bit.
- Watercooling 1-A Cooling: 
- CPU 1-A HV4
- 2x GPU SLI
- 2x Rad. Blacklord 240 4x Fans 120mm 
+ Internal 2 Fans.
-PSU Hiper Type R 580-630W
3D Mark 05: 8'075 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1021187

Note the default size text and 657kB (400 x 69 pixels) gif image animated in 145 frames.
No its not.
MaxxxRacer's sig is about 167H x 678L. It's 128px too wide...
But it doesn't bother me, usually width is not a problem at all.

Thanks you for the post.

[Unrealer]

wheres a good place to get avatars?

Do them yourself...

[dengyong]

wheres a good place to get avatars?

Microsoft Paint.... use any picture you want.