Signature limit enforcement

[sheila]

After many discussions and many attempts to figure out how to enforce signature limits, we have gotten something that works.

Total signatures will now be 400px by 200px. We ask that the main image be no more than 300 x 125. Everything else you want to include with the main image (or use instead of) needs to fit within a 400px by 200px block or it will be cut off.

This size was chosen because the width of *most* of the standard tickers is under 400px. There are some that are a little longer, and we may end up making the limit a little wider if it becomes an issue.

Overall, though, it does mean that people are going to have to pick and choose what they have in their sigs.

Roughly.... this size will allow for:
1 regular "sig image" , 2 lines of text (3 lines of small text)
1 regular "sig image" 1 line of text, 2 blinkies under that
8 regular lines of text
6 lines of text + a ticker
2 tickers and a small line of text

I plan to implement this tonight, I just wanted you to have a little notice in case you want to make some changes to your sigs before then.

[Jayne]

So can someone tell me how to add my journal link into my siggie because from the sounds of things my siggie is to big correct?

I would rather fix it before I loose something
Jayne

[Nichole]

How many lines do tickers count as? Is my sig too long in its current state?

[sheila]

Jayne:
http://www.onceuponalife.com/showthread.php?t=348
1. Go to your journal, highlight the address line in your browser window. Right click and select copy.
2. Go to Edit Signature and write the words you want to have linked ("my journal" or whatever)
3. Highlight those words, then click on the link button: in the little window/box that shows up, right click and choose paste
4. That should work
5. A new little trick I learned: if you add "&goto=newpost" (without the quotes) to the end of what you copied from the address bar, it will take people who click on the link to the last post in your journal instead of the first one.

Nichole:
If you right click on an image and choose properties, you can see the height of the image in pixels. (yours is 70px high). If the total pixels is close to 200, then you will probably miss some of the text. I would allow 25px for a line of regular sized text.

[Jayne]

Well my ticker is 70 and my blinkies are 40 so I have to get rid of one or both of those plus my text....correct

Jayne

[Jayne]

and my blinkies are too long correct? I am just trying to get it all figured out!

Jayne

[sheila]

yup. The blinkies are 150 pixels wide, each. 150*3 = 450. So its 50 pixels too long.

And tallest one is 40 pixels... which makes your height 125 + 40 + 70 = 235. So its 35 pixels too tall as well.

You lilypie ticker is 400 pixels wide, so that might be a good gauge for you.

[Jayne]

I will just come up with something else..I have a lot of work to do before you change it all tonight :lol:


Can there be an anouncement at the top of the main page. I have a feeling a lot of people are going to be wondering what happened when their siggies dissappear or get shortened. I just happended on this thread by chance!

Jayne

[sheila]

Thanks for the suggestion! Its up there now. :)

[Jayne]

:aok:THANK YOU!

[~Deborah~]

I guess mine is not within the limits then

[BeckyEsq]

No way am I going to be able to follow this, I am barely capable of posting a sig someone else made for me. Does that mean mine will be deleted?

[Brooke]

No way am I going to be able to follow this, I am barely capable of posting a sig someone else made for me. Does that mean mine will be deleted?
Becky - yours is like 1 pixel off!

Photo - 125
Text - 25
Blinkie - 51

Total = 201

So - if you had a slightly smaller blinkie, you'd be ok.

[lexie]

I am totally :scratch: confused too... can someone check mine?

[BeckyEsq]

Thanks, I think I fixed it.

[Nocona]

Lexie -
Your sig is 125
Your ticker is 70
That's 195. Assuming your text is 25, like Becky's, you are 20 over.

[lexie]

So what do I need to do to make it all fit??? I am such a dope when it comes to this. :doh:

[lexie]

K... I took out my name.. let me know if is is OK now.

[sheila]

This will all make more sense when I put the limiter in. Then whatever is "over" won't show up. I think It will be much easier to fix when what doesn't show up is very noticable.

[Silke]

Is a sig image, a ticker, and journal link then too much? Lots of members have that in their sig.

[Aussierach]

:tearhair: is mine ok I so confused

[sheila]

It has been implemented... so if your whole sig is showing up, it fits.

I am so sorry I couldn't figure out a better way to explain it!

[sheila]

...and I changed it to 425 across so that the FF tickers will fit.

[Jayne]

WOW..I guess nothing is going to work for mine. I can't have that. I think I will try to get it in my siggie somehow.

Jayne

[Nichole]

Bummer! It looks like the whole Lilypie ticker doesn't fit. :(

[Shel]

At least you have some of your ticker. Mine disappeared. I'm never going to remember how far along I am :lol:

[TtownAnne]

I'm completely thrown too - I switched mine around to include what I want, but have zero understanding of why it was incorrect before. Oh well, nobody read my book journal anyway. :)

[Lette]

I like that it's limited automatically. :up: cool

[Lette]

Shel... will it fit if you get rid of your name ? ie ~Shel~ above your pic?

[Jayne]

All your balloons don't even fit Lette!

Jayne

[Elisete]

5. A new little trick I learned: if you add "&goto=newpost" (without the quotes) to the end of what you copied from the address bar, it will take people who click on the link to the last post in your journal instead of the first one.


What am I doing wrong?

[Aussierach]

I know you guys had no choice, but to do this


but it sucks I can't have my FF ticker and my little blinkies and photo :(

[Jayne]

Elisete..just go to your journal..click and copy the link..then go to your user cp. Type in what you want to say in the siggie area..then highlight it. Click on the globe link thing..and paste your journal link in (delete the http or it will be there twice) at the end of your link type the &goto=newpost..

that should work for you!

Jayne

[Silke]

Is there no chance that we might be able to up the pixel height a little bit? Lots of tickers have been cut off. With the current limit it's either a sig image or ticker but not both together.

[LISA]

Lol my smilie garden is cut in half..freaked me out when I saw it and then I remembered the limit..off to fix..

[LISA]

Wait..now I realize that my countdown is gone too? :scratch: oh that should be fun getting that back after all the crap it took to get it in the first place :rolleyes:

[~Deborah~]

Lisa...I guess nobody wants to see us counting down to christmas:lol:.

[LISA]

Lol Deb I do think your right :lol: by damn it people it's coming :lol: J/K!gotta leave for work now..I'll fix it later

[BeckyEsq]

Well, my blinkie disappeared, so I guess I didn't do something right.

[TxTeacher]

Well, my blinkie disappeared, so I guess I didn't do something right.I see it, next to your journal link.

For those who want a ticker and siggie, you can always resize your siggies and/or make new ones that are smaller. If tickers are about 70 or 74 pixels tall, just subtract that from 200, along with the additional height of your text lines and/or blinkies (usually about 25 pixels), and make your siggies no taller than maybe 100 or so. They can be up to 125 tall, but you can still make nice ones that are shorter and would allow you to fit other images, as well. :nod:

[Nocona]

Nichole - your sig is 129 pixels tall. Try reducing that (they are only supposed to be 125) and see what happens. It doesn't seem sigs and tickers together are fitting in the requirement though.

[sheila]

Nichole - your sig is 129 pixels tall. Try reducing that (they are only supposed to be 125) and see what happens. It doesn't seem sigs and tickers together are fitting in the requirement though.
The easiest way to resize your sig is through the Edit Signature (http://www.onceuponalife.com/profile.php?do=editsignature) page. If you click on an image in that box, you will be able to drag/scale it with your mouse. (I hope I am describing that well)

[Sherry]

Ok... i am confused.. but I will figure this out. Promise :biggrin:

[sheila]

In the Edit Signature page, if you click on the image, it will have white lines with little boxes around it. If you put your mouse over one of the corse boxes, it will turn into an arrow that points both ways... if you drag in, the image will get smaller (and stay the same proportion).

Does that explain it a little betteR?

[Sherry]

Yes, thank you.

I guess I am just sad that I cannot fit all 4 of my kids in there there plus my weight loss progress.

[Chantal]

Sheila... can it be made just a BIT bigger? All I have is a siggie image and a fertility friend ticker... and for some reason the links for each of those dont work anymore...

I like the idea of restricting it - but this seems to be a bit too small to accomodate even simple siggies. I notice that most people who have the tickers - have lost all or part of it with the new restrictions :(

[AmyP]

In the Edit Signature page, if you click on the image, it will have white lines with little boxes around it. If you put your mouse over one of the corse boxes, it will turn into an arrow that points both ways... if you drag in, the image will get smaller (and stay the same proportion).

Does that explain it a little betteR?
I tried that with my animated image and it kept reverting back to its original size every time I saved it.

[Nichole]

I tried that with my animated image and it kept reverting back to its original size every time I saved it.
I was just coming to say the same thing happened to me.

[bunkie68]

Why are my two lines of text missing? My sig image is 300 x 125 pixels, and I changed my sig to where I had two lines of text - my weight loss garden with smilies, and a link to my Pampered Chef website, text only. How come the only thing showing up is my sig image? :dunno:

[sheila]

Its missing because of all the blank space between the image and the text. The blank lines count as lines... even though there isn't anything in them, they still take up space.

[sheila]

oops. :blush: I didn't try to save it after I resized it. I can't find a really easy way to change the size, either.

[Hilary]

:blue: My wl garden doesn't fit.

[Sherry]

:blue: My wl garden doesn't fit.


That is my complaint... Its such great motivation to see those...

[sheila]

Your signature images can be resized to make the WL gardens fit.

[Sherry]

Shelia - i am working on that. I have yet to figure out how to resize my pics to get them in here in the first place. :rolleyes: Im computer challenged today I guess. :lol:

[Hilary]

Roughly.... this size will allow for:
1 regular "sig image" , 2 lines of text (3 lines of small text)
This is pretty much what I have and it's still being cut off. :dunno:

[sheila]

I think its because the smilies are bigger than the text.

[Hilary]

I think I figured something out. :crossfing :lol: Darn it, I hope I did. I worked hard to lose that weight and want to show everyone. :lol:

[Hilary]

:woo:

[AmyP]

Why is my ticker cut off? My ticker is 75 pixels high, and my sig image is 120 pixels high. That's less than 200, and there's no space in the middle. What's going on? I don't mind resizing my sig image when I get home, but I am not sure how much shorter it's supposed to be.

[catalina]

We should at least be able to have a sig and a complete ticker :(

[Cazzle]

Not to be a troublemaker, but I'm just curious to know why there's been a decision to enforce the limit, and how this particular limit was chosen. Have there been problems with excessively long signatures? I'm just a little disappointed that the regulation length is so short.

Has this been discussed elsewhere? Is there are more appropriate place to ask these questions?

[sheila]

I know it might seem arbitrary. And it seems small because we have been allowed to have signatures as big as people wanted them.

We've had questions/comments/issues in the past:
http://www.onceuponalife.com/showthread.php?t=6625

And we had a group discussion about it shortly after that:
http://www.onceuponalife.com/showthread.php?t=4618

The bottom line was that anything we picked would be considered too big by some people and too small by others. I had to choose something I thought was reasonable. For most people, everything you want to have in your signature will still fit... but you may have to shrink the sig image a little.

[Michelear]

:lol: glad I found this thread. Now I'll just get rid of my old old birthday coming up! :lol:

[Sherry]

Is mine ok now? It fits.

[Nichole]

Why is my ticker cut off? My ticker is 75 pixels high, and my sig image is 120 pixels high. That's less than 200, and there's no space in the middle. What's going on? I don't mind resizing my sig image when I get home, but I am not sure how much shorter it's supposed to be.
I'm having the same problem. I moved my journal link, so my sig and ticker should fit (129 + 70 = 199) but they don't. What's going on? :scratch:

I'll have to completely redo my sig to resize it, since it's animated. (it lost its animation when I tried resizing :()

[sheila]

Why is my ticker cut off? My ticker is 75 pixels high, and my sig image is 120 pixels high. That's less than 200, and there's no space in the middle. What's going on? I don't mind resizing my sig image when I get home, but I am not sure how much shorter it's supposed to be.
I'm having the same problem. I moved my journal link, so my sig and ticker should fit (129 + 70 = 199) but they don't. What's going on? :scratch:

I'll have to completely redo my sig to resize it, since it's animated. (it lost its animation when I tried resizing :()
:blush: Because I was taking up some of your 200 pixels with a line break. Sorry about that.

on the positive side.... only subscribers can see your sigs & avatars now :aok:

[Sherry]

I am so confused. I see my siggy, but no one else does? Here is my siggy, is there anything I can do to get it to show up? ( i have no way to resize it )
Journal (http://www.onceuponalife.com/showthread.php?t=9319) ~ Life with 4 kids ~ Website (http://www.freewebs.com/sherryv/index.htm)
http://www.onceuponalife.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3513&stc=1
Chris 10/28/87 Julianna 4/27/89 Jordan 6/3/97 Bianca 8/25/03

[sheila]

I see your siggy.

If I confused you with this comment:
on the positive side.... only subscribers can see your sigs & avatars now :aok:

...then let me explain: All subscribers can see your signature. Anyone who comes to OUAL who is not a subscriber (whether they are a guest or a registered user) cannot see your signature or your avatar.

This was something I had been trying to accomplish as a privacy measure for a while. I had an idea of something that might work at dinner yesterday, and it turned out to work. So now only people with stars by their names will know that you have a signature and an avatar.

Does that make more sense?

[Sherry]

Do you see my siggy now? In this post Shelia?

[sheila]

yup. Ans I see it twice in your previous post in this thread,

[TxTeacher]

I don't see it, Sherry. :dunno: All I see is a box with a red x. I do see your text/journal link, but no image. Is anyone else saying they had trouble seeing it?

[~Deborah~]

Sherry ~ I don't see the picture:scratch:

[Jayne]

hmm..I can't see it Sherry

[Nocona]

I can't see Sherry or Lisa's sigs/pics.

[Sherry]

This is so weird. Some people can others cant. AGGHHH

[Sherry]

Lisa, all I see is a red X for your's but I can see everyone else's.. This makes no sense

[Jayne]

SHerry, I see a red X for both yours and Lisa's

Jayne

[TxTeacher]

Uh, oh-me, too? :lol: I just uploaded the thing earlier this morning to my siggie thread, so I know the link is good. And, I can see it. :dunno:

Just for grins, I re-copied the URL and repasted it into my signature editor; did that make any difference?

[Nocona]

Not unless you copied a red X :lol:

[Sherry]

Not unless you copied a red X :lol:

:lol: Right! That is exactly what I see. a Pretty X

[Sherry]

Can you see this?
http://www.onceuponalife.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3528&stc=1

[Nocona]

I can see that Sherry!

[Sherry]

How about my siggy in THIS post now? I replaced it with this pic you saw in the last post.

[Nocona]

I see your journal link, the 4 pics and all their names and DOB.

[Jayne]

Sherry, I see your siggie fine now. I still can't see Lisa's!

Jayne

[Sherry]

:banana: Whoo Hoo! It works! I just ended up renaming my pic, loading it back in and replacing

[LISA]

I can see Lisa's siggy :)

[Nichole]

Yay! I can see everything again! :yippee: Thanks, Sheila! :aok:

[TxTeacher]

Thanks, Lisa, for letting me know. :) So, mine is visible now? I sure hope so...:lol:

[Nocona]

Still a red X for me.

[Sherry]

Lisa - I just see " Lisa: then a red X, then 68 days until our FIFTH anniversary with :love2: smilies around it.

[Jayne]

Lisa - I just see " Lisa: then a red X, then 68 days until our FIFTH anniversary with :love2: smilies around it.
Yep...this is what I see also.!

Jayne

[TxTeacher]

:banana: Whoo Hoo! It works! I just ended up renaming my pic, loading it back in and replacingI just tried this...let's see if it works. :lol: The thing is, I can see my siggie, and one other person has said she could, so I don't know what's going on. :dunno:

[LISA]

I can still see your sig Lisa :)

[Hilary]

I can't see yours Lisa.

[sheila]

Lisa--I checked in the admin panel and found the error. Your url was oual.onceuponalife and it needed to be www.once...

[LISA]

Weird how others can't see it? :scratch:

[TxTeacher]

:bowdown: Bless you, Sheila! I didn't realize I wasn't getting the "www" part of the url.

Okay, now everyone celebrate if you can see my siggie! :banana:


http://oual.onceuponalife.com/images/smilies/lol2.gif (http://oual.onceuponalife.com/misc.php?do=getsmilies&wysiwyg=1&forumid=150#)

[TxTeacher]

Weird how others can't see it? :scratch:
Oh, I forgot to mention, my siggie is "Lisas only" access; only those of us with the first name Lisa will be able to view it.

:locolaugh

[LISA]

:lol: Yes that must be it :lol:

[Jayne]

Well I can now see it!!!

Jayne

[Sherry]

:nod: Yep, I can see it. Whew, glad we all figured that out. :faint:

[Melissa]

Total signatures will now be 400px by 200px. We ask that the main image be no more than 300 x 125. Everything else you want to include with the main image (or use instead of) needs to fit within a 400px by 200px block or it will be cut off.

Is this still a requirement? I've been seeing pictures that are over 125 high. :scan:

[sheila]

I haven't been paying too much attention to it, honestly. What sig images are taller than 125?

[Melissa]

http://www.onceuponalife.com/forums/member.php?u=205
http://www.onceuponalife.com/forums/member.php?u=63
http://www.onceuponalife.com/forums/member.php?u=2280
http://www.onceuponalife.com/forums/member.php?u=27

ETA: Obviously they aren't over the 200 limit, but I was just wondering about the pic limits.

[Kristen]

Will mine work? Its 3 seperate images...is that an issue?

[sheila]

Yours is fine, Kristen.

I don't have a problem with images that are over. The 125 limit was impoed 4 years ago, and there aren't as many people using big images in their sigs anymore. It hasn't been a problem that I've thought about, so I haven't been checking.

[Melissa]

Thanks for the explanation.

[Nichole]

None of those sig images seem all that large to me. :dunno: The point of the limit was to prevent people from using ginormous 500 pixel images in their sigs so that we didn't have to scroll for miles just to get to the next post.

I guess I don't really see what the problem is. :dunno:

[Alyson]

http://www.onceuponalife.com/forums/member.php?u=205
http://www.onceuponalife.com/forums/member.php?u=63
http://www.onceuponalife.com/forums/member.php?u=2280
http://www.onceuponalife.com/forums/member.php?u=27

ETA: Obviously they aren't over the 200 limit, but I was just wondering about the pic limits.

Does it make some difference in things on here??

[Melissa]

None of those sig images seem all that large to me. :dunno: The point of the limit was to prevent people from using ginormous 500 pixel images in their sigs so that we didn't have to scroll for miles just to get to the next post.

I guess I don't really see what the problem is. :dunno:
No problem, as I said before to Sheila, thanks for the explanation. But, if there is going to be a rule on the size of the picture in our signatures, shouldn't it be followed/enforced? The ONLY reason I brought it up was I'm a mod on another site and we are in the middle of signature enforcement. SO because of that, I just noticed these.

No, it doesn't matter what the pictures are, as I posted there are two with family pictures.