The staff feels that some members while putting very nice signature pictures at the end of their messages, that some are just too large and the actual message they write is dwarfed by a much larger picture.
The basic rule is this: its not the width of signatures that bother us so much...its the height of the signature. I only have a laptop to use and its sad to say I've seen signatures take up the entire height of my browsing screen at times. That's not ok, and I think our lax signature guidelines from our last set of rules is what allowed that to occur.
Therefore look at the green box below: its 250 pixels heigh by 600 pixels wide. If your entire signature can fit in that box, you're ok. If its a bit wide, we'll probably let it slide. If its over the height limit, we'll come knocking on your PM mailbox and ask you to fix it.
Some additional tidbits:
- no image should be larger than 250kb in filesize (no bitmaps here!)
- GOF awards are largely exempt from signature guidelines, however if you have many (I'm going to pick on Malte) please choose wisely which images are shown, or shrink the images (as Malte kindly has done) so that they fit within guidelines
Additional code to help you out:
- Code: on
<img src="url of image" height="250" width="600">
250 and 600 are respective # of pixels in the sample code
We don't want to be signature police, but its now time that we're a well-established board and community to look neater and more professional. There's no need for your signature to take up a large area of the page when your message says "Good luck!" or some one sentence. Not everyone's going to be happy with this, but it needs to be done. If you fail to comply, we'll contact you about your signature via PM, and you'll be given two days to fix it, or we will resize your images for you.
-Adam
ze boss
Last updated: April 6, 2013
