[CassetteFinger]

Originally posted by Matthew
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.

LMFAO someone actually said that god

[Matt]

Originally posted by James
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.

Darn dial-up

[Red Moon]

Other than banners another thing I have noticed recently is the megabytes of avatars I have had to download that I don't really care about.

On one thread I found myself downloading 3 avatars which totaled about 6MB of useless junk. Animated avatars in the region of 50KB to 100KB and can look good, but there is no need for them to be massive.

[Matt08]

Originally posted by Matt

Darn dial-up

Yeah, hopefully one day dial up will be phased out and everyone will have to have broadband. It's cheap enough now so I don't know why people are still using dial up.

[XxShortyxX]

Are mine too big? Lol I don't understand about the size and that.

[KKBL]

yours ar perfect!

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Matthew
Yeah, hopefully one day dial up will be phased out and everyone will have to have broadband. It's cheap enough now so I don't know why people are still using dial up.

It's not just dial-up. I have broadband and I find it highly annoying. It stops me downloading stuff while I'm on the site and if anyone else is using the internet in the house then the pages never fully load until after I have finished reading the page.

[XxShortyxX]

Originally posted by CathalOS
yours ar perfect!

Thankoo, that's good then

[Matt08]

Maybe the forum should introduce a new 'hide avatar' feature.

[James]

They slow down even on broadband if you open a lot of browser tabs.

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by XxShortyxX
Are mine too big? Lol I don't understand about the size and that.

If we are talking about avatars yours is 2.4 MB, while CathalOS's is 1.4 MB and Matthew's is a massive 7.8 MB.

So for just this page in this thread that is 11.8 MB of animated GIF's.

[KKBL]

Originally posted by Red Moon

If we are talking about avatars yours is 2.4 MB, while CathalOS's is 1.4 MB and Matthew's is a massive 7.8 MB.

So for just this page in this thread that is 11.8 MB of animated GIF's.

is 1.4 too big??

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by CathalOS
is 1.4 too big??

Depends on lots of factors but it would be under James suggested guidelines.

[Matt08]

Do you want me to remove my animated avatar then Red?

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Matthew
Do you want me to remove my animated avatar then Red?

I like it but it's a size issue.

I would like to see a cut down version of it or a slide show version. The problem with GIF's is the rubbish compression the format provides. If you have lots of frames they just get to big.

[Ruth*Star]

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

[KKBL]

whats the smallest image format???

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Ruth*Star
Is my Avatar and Siggy okay, my Avvie looks small but i'm not sure about the size?

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

[Ruth*Star]

Originally posted by Red Moon

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?

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by CathalOS
whats the smallest image format???

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.

[Matt]

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?

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Ruth*Star
Well do you want me to change it to just a picture or something?

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.

[Billy]

[quote]Originally posted by Rice_Square

Originally posted by Matthew
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.

LMFAO

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Matt
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?

I can't see a problem with that.

[Matt]

Originally posted by Red Moon

I can't see a problem with that.

Thanks Red

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