Is my Avatar and Siggy okay, my Avvie looks small but i'm not sure about the size?

whats the smallest image format???

Yours is a more respectable 871.9 KB, but still over James size guidelines.

Well do you want me to change it to just a picture or something?

JPEG which is a which contains a compression algorithm so you can balance picture quality against size. Unfortunately it is just a picture format and doesn't support animation which is provided by it's sister format known as MPEG 1.

On the subject of banners, I have a question:

I am currently using a PHP script (hosted on my own webspace) as an image in my sig which shows two different banners at random. I am doing this in order to save sig space whilst still having multiple banners.

Is this OK?

It just needs cutting down. There is no reason why you can't have a animated avatar as long as it doesn't contain too many frames.

My guess is that everyone is using some kind of software to convert small film clips to animated GIF's and they are unaware of the size they are.I don't think anyone is doing it on purpose it is just happening.

[quote]Originally posted by Rice_Square
LMFAO

I can't see a problem with that. :thumbs:

Thanks Red :thumbs:

FYI, the two banners I am using are no more than 17.5kb (each).

Would flash banners take up less space Red?

They'd take up more space. I know from personal experience.

Could an admin or mod please re-size Mutya's banners because they're way too big.

We will get to them.

OK :thumbs:

ROTFL @ THE MONITOR THING.

I've been trying to keep mine small.
I know I save mine as .png which slows pages but I use them on multiple sites, so most of them I've used somewhere else, but I'll HAPPILY resize them if they're too much.
Atm, I have 3 icons, which I hope are okay, but I can shrink them from 150x150 to 100x100 if necessary.

Also, my av is the first vid one I've made, and I tried to keep it as small as possible. It has like.. eight frames o.0 It's 27kb, which I think is okay..

&&PLEASE could there be a rule for how many animations a user can have at once. Some have 3-5 animations and not only do they not actually play because they take so long, but they're annoying when they slow down a page.