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Jul 12, 2011 | 04:33 PM

#11

Ford_Dude

5th Gear Member

Joined: Oct 2006

Posts: 3,115

From: Baytown, TX

ya in making the post where I have your pic in it I can't see the pic as tinypic is blocked by websense

photobucket is great

Jul 12, 2011 | 05:07 PM

#12

TWOKOOL

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2nd Gear Member

Joined: Jul 2008

Posts: 259

From: McDonough GA

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ford_Dude

so yours would be (ok I think you might need a differant image host)
or its just blocked for me

I thought I was losing my mind, I spent 20 minutes looking at my signature control and could not find this view. Then I happend to notice that the site has a "no" in the upload photo to signature box.
Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
Thanks for the info, it will help when they fix it.

Jul 12, 2011 | 07:14 PM

#13

AzPete

4th Gear Member

Joined: Aug 2008

Posts: 1,214

From: Panama City, FL

I think there might be a time limit you have to be active for to have a sig. pic.....maybe in the rules.

Jul 12, 2011 | 09:36 PM

#14

wayne613

4th Gear Member

Joined: Dec 2010

Posts: 1,597

From: Gallifrey

Quote:

Originally Posted by AzPete

I think there might be a time limit you have to be active for to have a sig. pic.....maybe in the rules.

That stuff's limited to 50 posts and < 2 weeks I think of membership. Both of which he's way over.

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Originally Posted by twokool

that the site has a "no" in the upload photo to signature box.
Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
Thanks for the info, it will help when they fix it.

It's not broken man. It shows as "allow upload of signature" as "no" because they don't wish to waste database space on people's signature pictures. That will not likely ever change. I was actually surprised that they allowed upload of any pictures, even for avatars, locally to their database. Even so, uploading locally except for an avatar picture is nearly useless for most pictures as the size and dimension limitation is quite low.

You need to upload to imageshack.us or the like, grab the forum code, and paste into the signature area in your control panel(minus the part that usually says "uploaded to blahblah").

You'll want to keep the dimensions reasonable as well...

Quote:

Originally Posted by forum rules

10. Signatures are limited to 500x250 (WxL). Those having an excessive number of images or excessive amount of text may be asked to remove it upon the discretion of the staff. MustangForums.com moderators and administrators have the final say in what is and is not acceptable for a signature picture.

Paint.net for windows should be fine for editing should you need to. I tried to squish mine down as much as I could with it still being readable, as such I'm over the pixel width but only by a few pixels, and tried to compress down the text with the smallest readable font to compensate.

Last edited by wayne613; Jul 12, 2011 at 11:59 PM.

Jul 12, 2011 | 11:53 PM

#15

Xeno

'Dr. X'

Joined: Apr 2008

Posts: 4,388

From: Toto's Kansas

the best way to upload sigs is: 1st have a photo hosting account (photobucket, imageshack, etc), then upload to here using the BB image code (with no spaces): [img] link to file [/img]

when you upload here, go to your user control panel (user cp), then select 'edit signature' in the list to your left. then insert the BB code, save, and you should be good to go.

max pixel size is 500 wide by 250 tall