how do you put pictures in signatures?

[woundwort]

how do you put pictures in the signatures?

[Sara]

It's explained here.

admin said:

HOW TO ADD AN IMAGE TO YOUR SIGNATURE

In the Signature section of your Profile (it's towards the bottom, in the Preferences area), just add the following code to add your image - but use your own image location, of course.
[img]http://www.site.com/dir/sig-image.jpg[/img]
If you want to use an image that is larger than the Sig Rule will allow, you can resize it using the code below:
[img width=400 height=250 src="http://www.site.com/dir/sig-image.jpg"]
You might need to play with the Width and Height values if the image becomes distorted.

You can also use standard HTML codes for Center and Bold, etc. For example, if you want your Signature picture in the center, use the following.
<center>
[img]http://www.site.com/dir/sig-image.jpg[/img]
</center>
If you need help with any codes, you can contact Joker for help - or better yet, you can see the WHERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT CODES section below.

And if you want your own personalised Signature, you can ask our resident Signature artist Colonel Kroenen (Thee Predator) who can fulfill your request... as long as you follow his instructions, located at the Signature Request thread.




HOW TO POST A LONG OR MESSY LINK NEATLY

Sometimes you'll want to post a huge URL, or just want to give your URL a title so it looks neat. All you have to do is post the following.
[url=http://www.site.com/dir/]This is the title of the link[/url]
Once it's posted, it will look like this:

This is the title of the link

It's not really necessary to use this code, but it's more polite - it can be quite annoying when extra long URLs don't wrap around to a new line, as they stretch the window meaning you have to scroll it left and right.





HOW TO ADD A CUSTOM TEXT COLOR

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Now, thanks to our Co-Admin, Beast (Colonel Kroenen), you dont have to repeatedly add in the color code in your posts to change the post color. Now you can change the color of your posts by simple adding in the color HEX number in your profile. Now, for some colors, you can just type in the color. For example: red; grey; silver; green; pink. However, most colors do need the HEX code.
Note: Some color HEX codes can be found here[/i].




WHERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT CODES[/b]

For any more information on the codes mentioned here, or to find out about other codes that might not have been mentioned, just visit the official Proboards support site. Click on the link to visit the Proboards FAQ[/i].
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If you need a place to upload your image, use imagebucket. It even gives you the IMG tag with the image address, ready for you to copy and paste into your signature field in modify profile.

[woundwort]

thanks but its not working i dont know why? plz help!
i'm not a computer wiz!

[Sara]

Looks like you forgot the end tag. Put [/img] on the end of that address.

Also, it looks like you are linking to a major site. That's stealing bandwidth, especially since you plan to use the image all the time. I suggest saving it and putting it on imagebucket. That image might be taken off since it's from an article.

[woundwort]

THANKS !!!!! how do i make my avatar as big as yours?

[Sara]

Imagebucket. I have my avatar hosted off of this forum. It's 100 x 100.

If you plan on using imagebucket for your avatar, you should save and put your signature on there too. It's kinda rude to link images off of sites like that. Here's what I mean.

It's common among amateurs and beginners to link to images and other files directly to some other server instead of putting them on their local server. Sometimes they just don't know better, sometimes they are just lazy, and sometimes they've just run out of space at their free host.

So not only do they "steal" the image (it is probably copyrighted and they are copying it without permission each time the web site is loaded) they "steal" the bandwidth!!

This is extraordinarily bad form, it's tasteless and it should be avoided like the plague.

[woundwort]

thanks now its perfect!

[Sara]

No problem. Thank you for taking the time to host your sig from imagebucket. That other site will thank you ^_~