A reminder about Signatures

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I've seen a lot of oversized sigs lately and wanted to post a reminder about the signature rules:

9. Signatures, Photos and Images: 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 signature size can't be larger than 30 Kb (30,000 bytes). This also includes any smilies added to a signature.
  • The max total height of a signature with NO TEXT is 150 pixels high.
  • The max total height of a signature with one line of standard sized text (size 2) is 134 pixels high.
  • The max total width of a signature is 640 pixels wide.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 may 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 over-riden.
The items I have highlighted are the ones that most members seem to have a problem with.

Please double-check and make sure your signature is within the forum rules.

Thanks.
 
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Bumping this up.
 
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Bumping up this important reminder as I have seen a lot of oversized signatures again.
 

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I leave the signatures up to the person who does them for me since I don't know how myself. I hope they are within the rules because I wouldn't know if they are or not.
 
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Originally Posted by LaRussa

I leave the signatures up to the person who does them for me since I don't know how myself. I hope they are within the rules because I wouldn't know if they are or not.
You had too much space between your text. I've fixed it and now it is with the rules.
 

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Hi, I'm just wondering whether my signature is within regulation, the background was created to the size and on my imageshack it is as well but it just looks a lot bigger than some others.
 

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I need to find someone to make signatures since I am inept at that
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Originally Posted by zohdee

I need to find someone to make signatures since I am inept at that
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Go to the Signature Request thread and ask. Someone (or several someones) will make a signature for you.
 
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Originally Posted by JazzyTheCat

Hi, I'm just wondering whether my signature is within regulation, the background was created to the size and on my imageshack it is as well but it just looks a lot bigger than some others.
Since your sig is 134 pixels tall, you can only have one line of text. One line needs to be deleted.


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How is mine? A lovely TCS member made it for me, as I am also inept at that sort of thing.
Looks good!
 
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Another bump because I am still seeing quite a few oversized ones.
 

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Originally Posted by AbbysMom

You had too much space between your text. I've fixed it and now it is with the rules.
Thank you but I don't know how I have anything to do with the spacing of my text. All I do is type and it just shows up, I'm confused.
 
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Originally Posted by LaRussa

Thank you but I don't know how I have anything to do with the spacing of my text. All I do is type and it just shows up, I'm confused.
You hit return a few extra times.
 

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I think the size of my new siggy is okay because I know GoldyCat resized it to meet the requirements, but I'm thinking that with the text I added I might be over size-wise now. Is it okay?
 

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The max size with one line of text is 134 pixels high by 640 long, and the total file size has to be under 30k. You can see the properties of a picture by right-clicking on it, scrolling down to "properties" or "view image info."

Your siggy is 134 x 640, and only 23.49kb.
 
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Yep, your siggy is fine.
 

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Originally Posted by LDG

The max size with one line of text is 134 pixels high by 640 long, and the total file size has to be under 30k. You can see the properties of a picture by right-clicking on it, scrolling down to "properties" or "view image info."

Your siggy is 134 x 640, and only 23.49kb.
Originally Posted by AbbysMom

Yep, your siggy is fine.
Great!
 
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