Too many banners..
 

Lately, some members are having banners in their sig that are over the size limit or having 10 or so banners when the maximum number is 1 banner (550px by 300px) or two banners (550px by 150px). Banners that are too big mess up forum pages and too many banners look awful, especially if most of them are animated. I think that this issue needs to be sorted out so that the forum looks tidier.

When they are too many on one sig, the mods deal with them and ask the members either to delete them or to reduce them. :wink:

I know exactly what you mean.... it sometimes take ages to load a page, I tend to switch banners off in my control panel so I dont have to load them

They used to, but it doesn't look like they do anymore apart from when they are informed.

I'll nudge Red to put something in admin so they can go on a raid....lol

Thanks Kiz, your the best :thumbs:
The last resort for me will be to switch off the banner thing.

Normally if people dont size down to the requested amount mods and admin go on to name and shame

does it matter how wide your banner is??because mine does exceed 550!

A certian member had a huge banner in their sig the other day, I asked them politely if they could re-size it via. U2U as it was making TiBB pages that they were posting in over sized. They refused and told me it would be easier for me to get a widescreen monitor and then both of us would be pleased. Some members on here have no common sense at all.

The one problem with your banner being too big is that it makes the forum pages wider than they are meant to be.

I've pointed this out countless times! :rolleyes: :laugh:

I work away quietly in the background resizing banners I come across that are too wide or too tall, and where members have too many banners, I do U2U them and ask them to reduce their sig.

If there are any particularly large ones at the moment, please U2U and let me know and I'll see what I can do. :thumbs:

but after i posted the forum pages didnt get any wider so...

Yes! Hang on, I'll resize it for you.

is my banner a problem?

Yeah, you should have two banners maximum which are 550px by 150px max or one banner that is 550px by 300px max.

what should I get rid of?

Your sig is about twice the size it should be, postandpollmad ............ something's got to go! In fact, quite a lot's got to go! :laugh:

I'd say delete both the flashing banners and all of the small videos. Leaving your large banner and the text underneath. That should do it. :thumbs:

* starts to press 'control pannel' *

Your sig looks much better now :thumbs:

Perfect. :thumbs:

Thanks, postandpollmad. :hug:

your welcome!

ye mine was too big aswell. matt resized it for me. looks better smaller. lol

We're going to have to get rid of the large animated gif video avatars also... they're too slow on dial-up connections. For example this page alone is about 10 MB which takes 23 mins to completely load on dial-up.

I suggest 200-250 KB as the limit for now.