Guys I have noticed a BUNCH of HUGE signature pictures lately.

Some pics are over 60k, if there are 2 or 3 of those pictures in one long thread that slows our board down BIG time. And we lose dial up members when they get frustrated by the speed to look at threads.

Lets keep the poor dial up users in mind and shrink them to less than 250 or 300 pixels in any direction. And Please pic ONE picture. The Billbords size pics of your truck or ads for your tuner are gobbling bandwidth for the dial up users...

I will be happy to shrink the pictures for you and email them to you if you cant or dont know how...

Dont forget to take advantage of JPG compression when shrinking them...

Thanks in advance

Doug

 

Doug , I'm pretty sure mine is good, but for everyone else, is it ok if people ask you in this thread about thier current sigs and if they need downsizing?

 

Might I add also for people to parse down their listing of mods and such. A sig that's a full page long is very annoying.

 

Done.

 

LOL..then how would you know who the "cool guys" are j/k

 

Sig Shrunk . Im on dial up at home though and everytthings runs fast for me though

 

Sal - You know me well enough to know I'll provide my opinion .. LOL.

If anyone has any question as to what thier Sig looks like to the average dialup user Ill be happy to try to help.

All- Keep in mind that MANY users have their display set to 640x480 or 800 x 600 which means a picture that is 300x300 fills almost an entire screen.

MANY web standards are based on an entire page being less than 60k to download. In some cases we have single signature pics that are larger than that. So when setting up your signature be mindfull that it is a SMALL part of a larger page that must be downloaded.

Doug

 

mine is probably to big?

I'll shrink that down when I get home tonight doug. Sorry about that.

 

Im on 56k and have only had 1-2 people's pictures be way to big to load... Ill shrink mine down for ya... Workin on a new sig pic anyhow.

 

Thats always better than someone who has a blurry pic of their truck, the size of my full resolution. Ive seen that a couple times.

 

Dont mean to pick on anyone but here is an example
600x400 pixels = 60k



And one that is cropped, sharpened and shrunk to 300x137 and 19 k. We didnt need to see all that pavement anyway....

 

Don't worry Spiro, WE know who the cool ones are

 

do you think about 40k is too big too?

 

I think there should be a 25k limit to sig picture. You get sick of the same pics everyday over and over anyhow.

I am a dial up user for the mere fact i have satelite tv, and both the satelite and dsl internet service is far more than i want to spend a month, that money could go toward my truck payment!!!!

 

Yes 40 k is too big

It is also 600 pixels wide which means it completely fills the screen of a majority of the members since most home users use low resolutions. Use a small clear, closeup thumbnail from your gallery in your sig and link it to the rest of the pics in your gallery.

To make a picture into a link just use the HTTP:// button and when it asks for text to be displayed use the IMG tags and url to the picture then when it asks for the URL use the URL you want the picture to point to..

In my opinion my sig pic is too big at 36k but it is only there for example sake... Ill remove it in a day or 2...

Doug