Due to mounting problems with (and related to) Avatars and signatures, there have been some changes to the requirements As a review here are original tips the original tips.
Avatars:
Since some of these things are new I'll give everyone a week or so to make the required changes.
Thanks,
Fred
Avatars:
- Size is currently 100x55. There is a bug in the program that causes the images to scale to this no matter what size the are, throwing off the aspect ration sometimes. Best practices is to resize to something close to this
- If the images is hosted off of the pics server, just the thumb nail image. It's a pretty close match and is automatically resized for you when you upload the images. This also makes the images smaller in size. You can get the location by right clicking on the thumbnail image and going to properties (URL will be shown there), or add "-thumb" before .jpg or .gif in your image file name (without quotes of course)
- If you are using one hosted on your own website, resize it to something small in image size and file size. Not only does it reduce your bandwidth, but also makes it faster to download pages, particularly those on modems. Case in point one member had a 0.5MB avatar without realizing it. 20k or less is the suggested file size.
- Make sure you have permission to link the image if it is not from your own site. This can cost the website owner where the image comes from.
- Avatars must now be Diesel, TDI, VW, or similarly related to the forums. (Ie political ones no longer are OK).
- Images ok, but lets keep them down to 3 or so lines
- Files size should also be around 20k or less
- Let's keep it TDI related
Since some of these things are new I'll give everyone a week or so to make the required changes.
Thanks,
Fred