A guide to AVATARS and SIGNATURES (no more new topics!)

[Victoria]

PM a supermod or admin.
Or hell, PM the member themselves and point them to the rule post so the moderators don't have to. >.>;

[VincentValentine]

How do I make my name bold and diffrent colours?

[VincentValentine]

* And my writing under my name

[Treize]

Ok this is actually pretty easy to do, but you will need some Gold to do it. First you can click on the vbPlaza Menu at the top of the screen. Then go to vbPlaza Main. When you are there you go to either Username or User Tiltle Options. There you can do various things to your Username and your User Title. It is pretty self explanitory from there. If you need more help you can PM anyone or just post another question. I hope this helped.

[Ponk]

Okie doke, I'm also having some troubles here. I've (tried to) set up an image signature - originally as an image map, to use it as links to Livejournal and devART - but I can't get it to work as a simple IMG SRC tag either. It's a GIF file, and hosted at Photobucket. Could it be I'm having troubles because I'm using Firefox? I can't think of anything else that could specifically affect it.

Anyways, help from Cesar or other helpful parties would be great.

[Victoria]

I'm using FireFox and the image mapping works just fine.
So maybe it's just you? I don't know. But I'm telling you it's working just fine.

[Ponk]

Weird... I'm not seeing the image at all, and not in IE either now that I check... But apparently Safari does see it. Uhm, WHUT.

[Omega Weapon]

Weird... I'm not seeing the image at all, and not in IE either now that I check... But apparently Safari does see it. Uhm, WHUT.

Hey dude, Stay away from Safari..This browser is sucks !! You want the best..listen to Great Writer Vicky and use FireFox, I am using FireFox and it's working just fine with me too.

Anyway, Try to copy and paste this code into your Signature text field and let me know:

<a href="http://thefinalfantasy.net/forums/index.php"><img src="http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/4543/ponkbannerkl1.gif" border="0" alt="Ponk's Singature"/></a><br/>Shot at 2007-07-08

- Omega Weapon.

[Ponk]

I have all three browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari) open and lined up showing the exact same page. IE and Firefox don't show EITHER copy of the image, and Safari shows both. By the by, I'm seeing other people's signatures with no problems whatsoever, so I am kind of confused. I might try clearing cookies and internet temp files and all that, see what happens.

[Victoria]

The centered image works fine with the image mapping links.
The one on the bottom left does not.

Just keep the one in the center. It works. And if you can't see your own images, then that's on your end. So.. try and figure it out.

[LocoColt04]

I'm on Firefox and the image shows, as well as the image-mapping and the links within it. GWV's on the right track -- it must be an issue on your end.

Also, HI!!!

[FF_FrEaK]

Ok I dont know how to center my sig and it really irritates me...im not that new anymore but I still dont know how to do it?

[LocoColt04]

The [center] tag is your friend.

Alternatively, you can use the <center> tag if you prefer html.

[Asectic]

I'm not sure if this has been discussed but how do you upload another picture from your computer if you already have one for the signature picture?

[girzim69]

How can I make my own signature? I know how to uploud a pic and everything but how can I put words in with the pic without it getting all messed up? I s there a site or something I can go to or do I need photoshop or something like that?

[Treize]

Yeah, I think a lot of people use photoshop to put words into their images, but there are other image editors. Photoshop is probably one of the best, but if all you want to do is put words into your image, than you could use Gimp. It is pretty good and it is free. Photoshop can be pretty expensive, so Gimp could be an alternative. I hope this helps you.

[girzim69]

Thank you I'll have to try that hopefully it'll work.


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I just found a site where you can download Photoshop for free. I haven't tested yet cuz it's still downloading. But thank you for your help.

Yeah, I think a lot of people use photoshop to put words into their images, but there are other image editors. Photoshop is probably one of the best, but if all you want to do is put words into your image, than you could use Gimp. It is pretty good and it is free. Photoshop can be pretty expensive, so Gimp could be an alternative. I hope this helps you.

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I just found a site where you can download Photoshop for free. I haven't tested yet cuz it's still downloading. But thank you for your help.

It works fine it's only a trial but whatever right it was free.

[winterborn86]

You mentioned in your 1st post that you can use youtube vids as a sig, but how do i do it?? ive looked about and couldnt see how, sorry if this has been posted i mighta missed it, but id be gratful you could explain it for me, i do get lost easily wen it comes to computers lol

[Omega Weapon]

I am looking at your profile right now. I can see that you have managed to use one of YouTube videos as a signature...

[winterborn86]

i somehow worked it out after i sent the post, i just played around with copyin and pasting things, i dunno wot i done lol

[girzim69]

wow. that vid was funny.

i somehow worked it out after i sent the post, i just played around with copyin and pasting things, i dunno wot i done lol

[winterborn86]

My vid for my sig has dissappeared, whats happened to it??

[Bleachfangirl]

I'm pretty sure it hasn't disappeared. It was there in all your other posts today, so you've nothing to worry about. Nothing happened to it.

[LocoColt04]

It's still there; perhaps it's not loading properly?

Sometimes if I open up a lot of pages at once, my signature banner(s) won't load. It happens.

[girzim69]

i suggest you try looking at it through a different browser like explorer or mozilla.

[winterborn86]

I use mozilla, the other day it was there to start wiv then i made a post and it dissappeard, i logged in an out several times but it dint come back, then i tried agin in the eve and there it was, a lil bit confusing that was

[Raider]

I can't have any picture they all say

Upload failed due to failure writing temporary file.

[LocoColt04]

The forums are in the midst of tweaks after a large update this afternoon.

The issue should be fixed shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Omega Weapon]

Well..I really don't know what to say..but.....I am still unable to change my avatar! and I desperately want to do that! So, What am I supposed to do?

Thanks in advance.

[Unknown Entity]

Well..I really don't know what to say..but.....I am still unable to change my avatar! and I desperately want to do that! So, What am I supposed to do?

Thanks in advance.

Have you got "Use Custom Avatar" selected? I made that mistake once...