Signature Guidlines-revised read now!

[calebz]

This is copied from the Help/Suggestions forum. It doesn't seem to be getting the views there that it should. Since this is the most active part of the board, perhaps more people will see it here.

 

I am making this a sticky post to remind everyone.

 

Most of you all love to have a nicely done, catchy Signature at the bottom of each of your posts. Signatures express your personality, interests, and even can list your current cars and projects.

 

We want to keep signatures in check here at the USMB for a few reasons.

 

One, signatures that are too large make reading through the threads here difficult and unpleasant. A signature that is bigger than most of your posts are is probably inappropriate.

 

Two, signatures use a LOT of bandwidth. By keeping your sig within the guidleines here, you will help us save money as well as keeping the forums looking good. The USMB is user-supported, and we would like to keep it that way. Right now we are able to maintain a no-advertisement policy.

 

The Rules:

 

It must be Subaru related. If it is not it will be removed.

 

Keep it under 10 Normal sized lines. If your signature is overly long, it makes scrolling through your posts a real pain in the butt, plus, 10 lines usually has lots of spaces which eat up the bandwidth.

 

Keep it clean. Do not place inappropriate language or links in your signature. Negative Remarks about another member are also not allowed.

 

Keep it to one image, no greater than 400x100 pixels. If you want a pic of your car, etc in your sig, but cannot figure out how to resize the image, post in Forum Help and Suggestions. There are plenty of people here that will help you out. If you use an image in your signature, pease keep it to less than 5 lines above OR below the image, NOT both. More than that and your sig starts to get too big.

 

Don't use excess, or large animated smilies! These are fun to use, but the suck a lot of bandwidth, plus the animated ones make it hard to scroll in some older browsers if there are too many. Use the smaller emoticons that are "normal" height, try not to get carried away.

 

Do not use 'too large' text. Please do not use large text, bigger than size=3. If you use this size=3, only use it on only one line, and make it count as two normal lines of text when you count up how many lines you have in your sig.

 

Suggestions:

 

Make use of the "Courier" font to make tables in your sig. With this, each letter is the same exact width, unlike many other fonts. If you use notepad on your computer, you can pre-make a good sig using columns of text, and then copy/paste it into your signature block. All your columns will come out nice and even with this font.

 

Make use of font size=1. This makes your sig look professional, with the smaller text, and makes it more "separate" from your actail posts. If you use size=1, feel free to use more lines of text, up to 13 in your signature.

 

Make large lists on the same line. You can make a list like this:

1985 GL-10 Turbo -- 1980 GL Wagon 4x4 -- Moped

Be creative with your lists, you can separate them with other characters, make "art" with symbols and letters, etc.

 

If you need help with your signature, please post in Forum Comments and Suggestions.

 

Thanks for your cooperation;)