Posting a Signature at TCS

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

Originally Posted by bogeyandbetty

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

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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

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

This one is 42kb


This one is compressed using Image Optimizer and is less than 20kb


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.

Originally Posted by Deb25

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

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