One's signature can be found directly under one's post. Whenever you post this will appear -if you have the check-box, checked.

To edit one's signature. All you have to do is go to the top of the page and click 'User Cp' (Control-panel) and go down to the link on the left-hand side of the page, in the side-bar, that says 'Edit Signature'.

This will bring you to a message box that is almost exactly like the Posting box. Except here, you have a much more limited amount of text, images, and space you can use.

Your signature can not be longer than 1000 characters including BBCode markup.


Here is the current maximum height we allow:

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Only one signature picture is allowed.

Note, that the five lines of text showed above measures to about 120 pixels in height.

Now, the width of the forum's table is about 1000 pixels. So a signature can be about that wide before it causes horizontal scroll-bars to appear. But I am not telling you this so that you'll go and make a signature 1000 pixels wide. No. I am telling you so that you won't. Or even post an image that wide!


To put an image in your signature, you have to use a hosting site like ImageShack® - Image Hosting or Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket to host the image onto a webserver so that the forum can access that image at anytime, even when you're offline. If you try to do the following technique without hosting the image, you'll just be wasting your own time. If the image is not on a webserver, the forum's server cannot access it.

What you have to do is upload the site to a host, in this case, Imageshack. When you do, it'll give you a list of codes that have different out-puts for different types of boards etc. What you're looking for here is the one that says 'Direct link'. It should be the one on the very bottom of the page.
Next, you take the direct link and put the Img tags around it. This will, when previewed or posted, retrieve the image from the link and display it where the code was input.



[img]direct link[/img] = Image extracted from link.


http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/6...6yh2kz6oz5.gif Direct Link.


[IMG] Tag


[img]http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/6959/296yh2kz6oz5.gif[/img]







Now, remember, that not everyone has high-speed. So the more images/etc you post will add onto the already slow loading times of anyone on dial-up. Be considerate and moderate yourself whenever posting.

The best way to cut-down on loading times is to post thumbnails of your images, so that when you click the thumbnail, it takes you to the larger image. Both ImageShack and PhotoBucket have this option, so it's as easy as cut-n-paste.

Update:Another contributing factor to loading-times is file-type. The most common file type for images is Jpg or Gif. Of the two, I suggest using .gif, because it is the best image-type for use with the internet. Yes, it has limited colors(256) but it can be utilized to make that almost completely unnoticable. (The above image is a .gif)

Another plausible note: Do NOT upload a .bmp image. Period. The file is automatically(from my experiences) converted to a HUGE-ASS .png file. These files alone, when posted in a thread, can grind internet traffic to a halt. They are usually several megabytes-large. If you have a .bmp you wish to post, open it in MSpaint and go over to the 'file' menu hit 'save-as' and save the file as a .gif by dropping the menu down to that file-type.

(Note: The image above is Much too large to be put in a signature. Please do not use an image of this size in your signature. It will be deleted)

Also be sure and see the RpG Special Report