4 - Signature Guidelines
Overview:- Graphics are allowed in signatures.
- Total signature graphics should not exceed 550 wide by 90 pixels high.
- You may have three lines of text with any image, if no image is being used, you can have eight lines of text.
- A one pixel/line violation will result in the removal of the signiature.
The above is our policy in a nutshell. To save space on the forums pages and to give our dial-up members a little break, no signature image can be larger that 90 pixels high by 550 pixels wide, and no larger than 200 Kilobytes (200,000 bytes) in file size. This is quite large, and great sigs can be made with plenty of room to spare. There is of course no need to use the full dimensions for your sig image, the most interesting sigs are often quite diminutive in both dimensions and file size.
Supported Formats
Supported image formats are JPEG, JPG, still and animated GIF's, PNG and BMP. Flash signatures are currently unsupported.
Image Rules
You may use more than one image in your signature but the total dimensions of the images combined must not exceed 550 pixels wide and 90 pixels tall. The total file size of all images in your signiature cannot exceed 200 KB.
Text Rules
If you are using an image in your signature then you can have a maximum of three lines of default size text in your signature, if you are not using an image then you can have up to a maximum of eight lines.
Appropriate Content
Images or text of an explicit sexual nature, that contain expletives, are racially prejudiced/insulting, are hateful or contain inappropriate language or are religiously offensive are not permitted for use here. Any such signiature will be promptly removed.
These rules are effective across all sections of the forum and signatures that do not follow these rules may be removed without notice. If your signature has been removed it will be replaced with the below image and/or text from the staff member who removed it explaining why. If your signature has been removed then please re-read these guidelines and correct the signature. Repeat offenders will be warned and/or banned.
