Every member enjoys personalizing their posts with a unique signature. In order to speed forum loading time and avoid excessive scrolling for all members, we have instituted these guidelines for signatures.



Where one or more images is used in a signature, the total signature size can't be larger than 30 Kb (30,000 bytes). This also includes any smilies added to a signature.

The maximum total height of a signature with or without any text above or below it can be no greater than 150 pixels at 72dpi.

If you decide not to use an image, you may have up to 4 lines of standard size text, single-spaced.

In general, if you have an image banner, no other text, ticker, smilie, etc. will be allowed. Exceptions may occur if your image is small enough for the signature not to exceed 150 pixels in height with the text included.

All signatures are subject to the same rules and regulations as any post, and are subject to the same disciplinary actions and editing by moderators if it is deemed necessary, up to and including banning.

Any embedded photos or images posted at TCS may not be larger than 640 pixels wide. Photos or images larger than 640 pixels wide will be deleted by a Moderator and disciplinary action may take place at the discretion of the Moderator. This includes photos and images that are hosted anywhere on the Internet. Photos that are attached to a thread are restricted by the attachment manager settings already in place and cannot be overriden.
You may include a discreet link to another site in your signature. You may not advertise your site in the main body of your post.
Member signatures are subject to review and deletion by the moderating team without advance warning.

One final note -

If you get a PM regarding your signature, you are not being 'picked on'. As mods and members surf the board and catch large sigs, members are contacted. I receive many, many PMs from members reporting others' signatures. Unless your sig is way outside the guidelines, I will usually give you a chance to repair it. But if I feel as though my request is being ignored, I will delete it.

Am I addressing this to any one member? No. It's a fairly common reaction when I send out a PM.

Where do i find.... How to post a picture or signature...

this is really a neat site, so much fun,,,, thanks, Deb

http://www.rosehawke.com/how_to/

Cindy(rosehawke) has a wonderful page that will help you. Click the above link. Good luck.
Lei

Thank you! Willl dooo!

Thanks Deb!

Your kitties are so cute/handsome!!Sweet!! Never seen anything like them, first time was when i was looking through posts and found the poor ragged kitty that was found..... and you showed the poster your kitties..... Did she ever find the kitty's home? I cannot remember where the post was/is... poor kitty..

I posted a pic at orange tabbys only.... I havent seen it; had to make dinner... I am looking for it now to see how it came out.....

How do you shrink your siggy? I had a hard time putting it up. Lol

How do you shrink your siggy? I had a hard time putting it up. Lol

I use Photoshop to resize my siggy and pics. I find it the simplest way to do it though I know others here at TCS use different programs.

Your siggy is fine now, visually a good size, and just under the 30 KB limit :)

How do I get a signature?

You create it on your own, but you don't get the option until you reach 5 posts.

Thanks for the info Deb

testing the size of my siggy.

Ty Deb...and I just have to say GIVE all your babies hugs for me THEY ARE SO CUTE!!!!! I love CATS :clap:

Deb, my signature is 33, 300+ bytes. Is this ok or does it need to be made smaller, and how do I do that, please?

I don't know how flexible the rules are on the file size, but in general, I just wanted to say that this is a great tool for compressing file sizes of jpgs:

Image Optimizer (http://xat.com/io/index.html)

This one is 42kb
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/icklemiss21/sluggoandpandora.jpg

This one is compressed using Image Optimizer and is less than 20kb
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/icklemiss21/sluggoandpandoraLR.jpg

So there is very little image quality lost when compressing :)

We ask that you keep it down to under 30 KB please. There are people that can help you resize oversized signatures- jcat, valanhb, rosiemac, to name a few.

Am I understanding right that there's no limit on image width? Only 150 height?

We haven't set a limit for length because there really hasn't been a need to, so far. I would say about 600 pixels long, though. We don't want signatures that are overly long, either.

You create it on your own, but you don't get the option until you reach 5 posts. I have 5 posts but can't find where to create my signautre on TCS I know how once I get there..... :rolleyes:

You don't actually create your signature on TCS. You'd have to create it on your computer or ask someone to make one for you. Then you have to host it at a site like Photobucket, and remote link it to the site, using your User CP.

Info on the way! :wavey:

http://www.rosehawke.com/how_to/

Cindy(rosehawke) has a wonderful page that will help you. Click the above link. Good luck.
Lei
I noticed that if you try and print these instructions for easier reference, the page does not print well.

I have 5 posts but can't find where to create my signautre on TCS I know how once I get there..... :rolleyes:

I've made 6 posts and I still don't have the option in my control panel to make a signature. I am looking forward to having one, but I am also wondering how long it takes before they give me the option?

Minimum of 5 posts and 24 hours in membership.

If I ever figure out how to make my signature:confused: , do I have to send it to photobucket first, or can I up load straight from my "My Pictures" file? (will check out the link to create a signature, too:) )

You need to upload it to photobucket first. :)

i cant find where you put your signature

You need to be a member for 24 hours and have 5 posts :)

i cant find where you put your signature
You'll be able to put one up tomorrow (Monday). Under "User CP", you'll find an "Edit Signature" option, where you can paste the Photobucket, etc., link.

I've tried to create a signature. I was successful posting a picture, but to creat a signature....I just don't get it.



Every member enjoys personalizing their posts with a unique signature. In order to speed forum loading time and avoid excessive scrolling for all members, we have instituted these guidelines for signatures.

Total file size no greater than 30 Kb (30,000 bytes). This is a total size, whether you have a single image or multiple images.
Height of signature can be no greater than 150 pixels at 72dpi. This obviously refers to images.
You may have up to 4 lines of standard size text, single-spaced, if all you are using is text.
In general, if you have an image banner, no other text, ticker, smilie, etc. will be allowed. Exceptions may occur if your image is smaller than 150 pixels in height.
You may include a discreet link to another site in your signature. You may not advertise your site in the main body of your post.
Member signatures are subject to review and deletion by the moderating team without advance warning.

You need to have at least 5 posts. :)

Thamks was wondering how to get one.

Thamks was wondering how to get one.when you have enough posts, you can check here (http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49868) for designers.

I'm sure my picture is sufficiently small, and have successfully uploaded it to the point where it shows in "Edit Signature," and have clicked "Save Signature," but it doesn't show up on my post(s). I did all of this yesterday, mid-day, and thought it might take overnite to finish "loading," but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Is there something else I'm overlooking?

Thanks,
Ginny

Ah-ha . . . it came up on a new message, but not an old message!!!

OK . . . guess I did it right afterall!!!

I see an image in your signature:
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q77/ginnyp1/Candy-for-web.jpg

Can you see everyone else's siggies? If not you may have accidentally told it not to show signatures which can be changed in your user CP.
Photobucket was also doing upgrades yesterday so some images wouldn't have showed for a while

ETA: yep, they only show in posts made after the siggy was uploaded to TCS

I can see all siggies. Some instructions indicated: "Your new signature will now be appended to every post you’ve got (or indeed, have EVER posted) on The Cat Site!" but I guess this isn't correct.

Anyway, it's showing on new ones!!!

Thanks,
Ginny

That was posted back in 2005, it is quite possible that the software allowed it to append to old posts and some of the upgrades have changed this.