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Public Service Announcement: Signatures

PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 3:47:37 pm
by Arazia
It was brought to my attention that some folks have signatures that are either stretching screens or otherwise too wide/tall.
No one wants to have to swim through huge signatures.

As a general rule, please try to make sure your signatures are no larger than the outline below:
(P.S. this was determined by what stretches the screen on my netbook.)

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If the box-outline doesn't help, please aim for no greater in height than 250px, including /all/ content in your signature.
Width-wise, you should aim for no more than 600-ish pixels across. Multiple smaller images are okay, but you shouldn't use any image that causes the screen to stretch.

Re: Public Service Announcement: Signatures

PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:15:17 pm
by Koiley
Hey Arazia- if I'm not mistaken there's a way to limit the signature sizes in the Admin Control Panel?
At least on FreeForums there is. :3

Re: Public Service Announcement: Signatures

PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:17:35 pm
by Arazia
Kiley wrote:Hey Arazia- if I'm not mistaken there's a way to limit the signature sizes in the Admin Control Panel?
At least on FreeForums there is. :3


Technically I can, but I'd rather just ask people to cut theirs down rather than having to go in and set hard limits on things.
(The difference between asking nicely and going 'rawr you cannot has long signature anymore!')

If it becomes a problem and people ignore this reminder, then I'll set it in the control panel.

Re: Public Service Announcement: Signatures

PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 5:27:50 pm
by Koiley
Oh ok, I understand. :>

Re: Public Service Announcement: Signatures

PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 6:53:42 pm
by Arazia
I am bumping this thread as a reminder to people.
I've stumbled on a number of very large signatures again.
They should be no longer in height or in width than shown above.

This seems to be effecting even some of our more experienced handlers.
So please. Resize your images.

Any signatures still breaking the limits as of this weekend (Saturday) will be taken down and replaced with a comedic message from staff.

Re: Public Service Announcement: Signatures

PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 8:29:09 pm
by Briar_Rose
Arazia wrote:Any signatures still breaking the limits as of this weekend (Saturday) will be taken down and replaced with a comedic message from staff.

Sudden urge to create an obnoxiously large signature. I didn't know I needed this until just now.