Thread: Town Hall Poll and Discussion: Size Limits on Signatures

my biggest issue are the avys/sigs that are gifs. My PC is elderly and that stuff kills my wait time.

Originally Posted by SmilinAssasSin27

my biggest issue are the avys/sigs that are gifs. My PC is elderly and that stuff kills my wait time.

Not everyone optimizes their images for the web, and therefore they are often bigger (file size, not physical size) than they need to be and that starts to add up. Your's aren't too bad (70K or so each, but that's 140K+ for both of them), but sometimes people ahve images that are 200K or bigger.

As an example, here is one of your sig images at three different optimized levels. These are just three Jpeg settings, but often you can switch to gif and get better quality, but smaller size.

Jpeg quality setting of 60 and file size of 30K (vs. original 70K)


Jpeg quality setting of 30 and file size of 19K (vs. original 70K)



Jpeg quality setting of 15 and file size of 12K (vs. original 70K)

Here is a site by the way for resizing. Both the dimensions of the image and web optimizing by changing file type or changing quality.

It also allows you to compare what the image will look like at different quality settings.

http://webresizer.com/resizer/

You can also use programs like Adobe Image Ready, Google Picasa and numerous other programs.

If everyone would take a few moments to optimize their images before using them in sigs, then it would speed up BF for everyone that visits.

The main reason I have sigs turned off didn't really have to do with the previous polls and discussions, but because of some of the sizes! I'd prefer the smallest size, but honestly I'm most likely going to continue to leave them off anyway.

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe

The main reason I have sigs turned off didn't really have to do with the previous polls and discussions, but because of some of the sizes! I'd prefer the smallest size, but honestly I'm most likely going to continue to leave them off anyway.

Way to make your opinion unimportant.

Originally Posted by LordTrychon

Way to make your opinion unimportant.

LOL - I know. The main reason was size, but I also didn't like looking at a lot of the crap during the election. That was the straw, but primarily size was the reason.

My unicorn does not wish to be resized.

why are the two pics in my sig stacking all of the sudden? they are supposed to be side-by-side

They've always stacked, Shank. You've got an return after the first one. Take it out and it should be fine.

That, or the two pics could be pasted side by side into a single graphic....

same w/ mine. On my computer, they've always been sSBS. Now 1 on the other...

Originally Posted by shawshank24

why are the two pics in my sig stacking all of the sudden? they are supposed to be side-by-side

Originally Posted by SmilinAssasSin27

same w/ mine. On my computer, they've always been sSBS. Now 1 on the other...

Ok, that was my bad. When I was working on the sig areas for both incorporating the P&R opt-in and enforcing sig size restrictions, I put a max width of 800 pixels (thinking nobody was over that), and a max height of 850 or so, to make sure nobody's sigs were cut off.

Since your sigs side by side were over 800, they wrapped and switched to stacked.

Sorry about that.

That's what I get for playing with CSS when I don't know what I am doing.

Originally Posted by Tned

Ok, that was my bad. When I was working on the sig areas for both incorporating the P&R opt-in and enforcing sig size restrictions, I put a max width of 800 pixels (thinking nobody was over that), and a max height of 850 or so, to make sure nobody's sigs were cut off.

Since your sigs side by side were over 800, they wrapped and switched to stacked.

Sorry about that.

That's what I get for playing with CSS when I don't know what I am doing.

Lesson one:

Don't make live updates.

hahaha, i knew it!

(i knew because i remember specifically resizing the two pictures to be the same height and putting them side by side).

Originally Posted by frauschieze

Lesson one:

Don't make live updates.

I was a little lazy. This is about the only change I have done directly on the live server. Usually, I make all changes on a backup server and then after fully tested, I reapply them here.

Like you say, playing with the live site isn't smart.