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Post by MsBig on Oct 2, 2005 4:43:40 GMT -5
A lot of people have made new banners recently. They look great but some of them are so wide that they are distorting the width of the threads.
With the extra space needed in the left hand frame for member details and avatars (around 200 pixels), the main thread in the right hand frame should not be more than around 600 pixels wide, so that people using 800x600 resolution can read them without horizontal scrolling.
Please reduce your banner widths to 600 pixels or less.
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Post by Digital Leonardo on Oct 2, 2005 4:52:09 GMT -5
I think its more then just the width, alot of people are making the height rather long aswell, I know it dosn't effect the screen, but really big banners may have more detail, but they get very tideus and annoying at times.
You shouldn't be posting large graphics or like wallpapers... they should be nice and compact and just something to look at for a moment, then pass on.
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Post by VampSpike on Oct 2, 2005 4:58:57 GMT -5
Is this the right place to post this? Shouldnt it be in System status or something?
But yea i know what you mean about having to scroll along to read the rest of a post because one persons banner on the page is too long, its very annoying.
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Post by MsBig on Oct 2, 2005 5:17:44 GMT -5
I only have Moderator privilidges in this thread, so I can sticky it here. When either Flobbster or CMK get round to it, I'm sure they'll move it somewhere else.
In the meantime, there are a lot of offenders in the Customs thread and not many people read the Systems thread.
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Post by Digital Leonardo on Oct 2, 2005 5:19:41 GMT -5
In the meantime, there are a lot of offenders in the Customs thread and not many people read the Systems thread. Its also really big in the art thread, people just posting wallpapers or large art works rather then having a preveiw and link to the larger one... It really does become a handful. |
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Post by shep on Oct 2, 2005 5:56:31 GMT -5
do i need to reduce mine cos they were made for me and i have no idea about pixels sizes?
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Post by Ouija on Oct 2, 2005 5:59:33 GMT -5
Its also really big in the art thread, people just posting wallpapers or large art works rather then having a preveiw and link to the larger one... It really does become a handful. Thats one thing that i've always wanted to know, how do you get those small images that link to the bigger images? Oh and Shep, if you right click your banners, and go on properties, it should tell you the pixels. |
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Post by MsBig on Oct 2, 2005 9:12:00 GMT -5
Yours are fine, Shep. As a guide, my new banner is 600 pixels wide.
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Post by shep on Oct 2, 2005 15:15:25 GMT -5
thanks for the advice ouijarick and misbig x
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Post by Digital Leonardo on Oct 2, 2005 17:42:08 GMT -5
Its also really big in the art thread, people just posting wallpapers or large art works rather then having a preveiw and link to the larger one... It really does become a handful. Thats one thing that i've always wanted to know, how do you get those small images that link to the bigger images? Oh and Shep, if you right click your banners, and go on properties, it should tell you the pixels. Well, if you use Photoshack.us it does all that for you, it makes a preveiw image with a link. It would help alot of wallpaper uses, who have their large wallpapers that just break the entire thread... |
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Post by Lior Knight on Oct 2, 2005 17:57:52 GMT -5
I agree. Even with my resolution (1280x1024) some of the banners spread all over most of the screen.
Also, people should avoid posting BMP images, those sometimes take ages to load.
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Post by scotty on Oct 4, 2005 17:38:53 GMT -5
Thanks for the info. The suggestions are a great idea.
I wasn't really sure how large to make the banners or art work
Thanks MsBig for the guide.
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Post by Rogue on Oct 9, 2005 9:31:54 GMT -5
I just disabled signatures in my profile options  I was tired of seeing two or three banners in a sig, and having to scroll an entire screen just to read the next post  I've seen some forums that have some kind of code which resizes each person's reply area to fit the screen. Kind of hard to describe... let's say someone posts a huge image that makes it necessary to scroll horizontally to see it all. Instead of all the other posts also being stretched out on the screen / page, only that one post with the huge image is stretched. Brilliant idea, I wish more forums could / would do that. |
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Post by Insanity on Oct 10, 2005 3:16:48 GMT -5
Are people irratated by my banners? i know I have two but I will take one down if people want me to. I don't want people to be annoyed by me because of my banners.  I kind of like having two of them... |
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Post by Rogue on Oct 10, 2005 7:24:35 GMT -5
Most if not all of the banners I've seen are awesome, but when I'm trying to read a page and have to keep scrolling to get past them... that's when I don't like them Maybe there should be a banner height limit as well? I don't know. I just don't like banners that are as high as a full paragraph of text. Then again we do have the option to just switch off signatures and avatars... And it's no so much here that's bad, I've been on some forums where I wish I could turn off signatures. People would have banners stacked three deep, enough that it took up a whole screen...  |
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Post by BuffyLover on Oct 10, 2005 10:58:27 GMT -5
I agree that some people are becoming a little excessive with banners. Most are fine, but I get irritated when I have to scroll down past huge images of just one person's banners. I don't think this should be a written rule however, just more of a courtesy. I know I could just disable them, but frankly I like looking at other people's banners. I just don't want to look at a half a page of them.
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Post by wickedredhead on Oct 10, 2005 11:45:42 GMT -5
I agree that some people are becoming a little excessive with banners. Most are fine, but I get irritated when I have to scroll down past huge images of just one person's banners. I don't think this should be a written rule however, just more of a courtesy. I know I could just disable them, but frankly I like looking at other people's banners. I just don't want to look at a half a page of them. I agree with everything you said! I love looking at banners but I also don't like it when they take up my whole screen. |
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Post by Afer on Oct 10, 2005 13:19:28 GMT -5
It annoys me also when peoples banners stretch out! There was even a member who had huge pictures of Beyonce and Ciara in their signature! Any banner i have i make sure it fits in and if it doesn't i try to fix it ASAP because it annoys me and other people when you have to scroll across the page to see 1 or 2 words!
As for the wallpaper thing. Some people don't like having to go onto different websites just to see an image because they don't have time for it! I like everything to be on the forum so i no how to access it. And if the wallpaper is bigger the faults and good points are more noticed because the image is larger and these things are easier to spot. To be honest somebody, can't remember who..maybe Dl, posted wallpapers and because they were silly little pictures which you had to click on to get the real sized image and i didn't even bother looking at them because i simply don't see the point on unsing a link to go on a different site just to look at an image when you could just post it on the forum for people to see in the original thread. Afterall wallpapers are suppose to be big and, in your face.
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I was tired of seeing two or three banners in a sig, and having to scroll an entire screen just to read the next post 
Shine on down...
