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mchlwise
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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Santa Clarita, CA
Posts: 198

Call me lame, but:

I have noticed recently that some people have a picture under their name and location information when they post.

I can't seem to figure out how to do it. Can anybody help?

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07-09-2000 11:06 PM

kamizuno
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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Hawaii
Posts: 99

I hope you get the response you want, because I'd like to put a smilie in there too. The guys with the pictures have so far been reluctant to just outline the method used, probably because they're afraid someone will chew up the bandwidth by using a 640X480 picture of their pet cat Fluffy :P .

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07-10-2000 12:21 AM

bregent
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Registered: Dec 1999
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Posts: 170

quote:
Originally posted by kamizuno:
The guys with the pictures have so far been reluctant to just outline the method used, probably because they're afraid someone will chew up the bandwidth by using a 640X480 picture of their pet cat Fluffy :P .

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It's bad enough that we have to deal with slow ads downloading, now we have to deal with members images too. Sheesh.

On usenet it's considered bad etiquette to have a sig file more than a few lines long...now we have the equivalent of sig files that are 50K or more!!

I think image links should be disabled in posts. It's not bad if one member does it but once everyone starts it will really start to slow things down. I don't have a problem if there allowed in profile view only.

07-10-2000 01:50 AM

mchlwise
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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Santa Clarita, CA
Posts: 198

bregent - You're just no fun.

I understand that we don't want to slow things down and you don't want people puttin in huge pictures in every post. That's not what I'm talking about.

It can easily be limited by VisorCentral staff to icon size, or even 75x75 or so. Kamizuno just wants a smilie for Pete's sake. How much can it really slow down a board if every single post has a 75x75 jpeg or a smilie?

07-10-2000 02:54 AM

BEN
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Registered: Feb 2000
Location:
Posts: 638

Just think of it this way. Only the people who post very often have images under their names. Because you see these posts very often the images will be loaded into your cache. Once the images are loaded into you cache it doesn't take time to load them.

If you want to figure out how to get the images under your name don't ask, try until you get it. It took me nearly 15 tries before I got it.
BEN

07-10-2000 04:48 AM

JHromadka
VisorCentral Staff

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Texan in Calgary for a while
Posts: 1361

Just keep the images very small (and tasteful) or we will have to disable them. Make sure the image doesn't stretch the name section out longer and is very small in size.

If we receive too many complaints about them we may have to disable them.

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07-10-2000 04:19 PM

mchlwise
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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Santa Clarita, CA
Posts: 198

James - Small and tasteful images are what I'm talking about, and what most of them seem to be.

I'm just a little surprised that I CANT SEEM TO GET ANY HELP HERE!!

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07-10-2000 04:43 PM

Petro
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Registered: Jan 2000
Location:
Posts: 241

Chill dude,

First off, there's a lot of info on this in the "test (nt)" post already, but here's how you do it:
NOTE: Remove the "{}"s from the code, I put them there so you can see the code and it doesn't activate.

in your Address location in your profile put:
<{}img src="[image URL]">

Hope this helps!

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07-10-2000 06:42 PM

mchlwise
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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Santa Clarita, CA
Posts: 198

Petro - THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH.

Usually VisorCentral people are very helpful, and I was just a little surprised that it was so hard for me to information.

Thanks

07-10-2000 07:06 PM

mchlwise
Member

Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Santa Clarita, CA
Posts: 198

I thought I might as well test it out here. It took me a couple of tries, then I figured out editing a message would refresh my profile, and I didn't have to keep posting. I had a space after the < and it wasn't working.

Anyways - Thanks for the help!

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07-10-2000 07:51 PM

mchlwise
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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Santa Clarita, CA
Posts: 198

another attempt - please ignore my lameness

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07-10-2000 07:55 PM

mchlwise
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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Santa Clarita, CA
Posts: 198

I wish I could delete these. sorry.

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07-10-2000 07:58 PM

kamizuno
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Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Hawaii
Posts: 99

Congrats mchlwise, you got your image in there! Still trying to get my smilie, strangely enuf I think I would have an easier time getting an image in at this point, unfortunately I don't have any image I'd care to use in my profile. Oh well, at least I got a broken .jpg icon in my profile, that's a start I guess :P .

PS-Nice car, parks precisely in the profile box!

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07-10-2000 10:54 PM

mchlwise
Member

Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Santa Clarita, CA
Posts: 198

Thanks Kamizuno. Keep trying, I hope you get it. Unfortunately, I can't help with the smilie problem. I had enough trouble getting my jpeg in there. I guess you could always "screen shot" a smilie, cut it and make a jpeg, but there has to be a better way.

I'm thinking of changing my car to my face, but I don't know if that would be too cheesy.

Maybe my doggie.

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07-10-2000 11:35 PM

Cerulean
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Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Chandler, AZ
Posts: 289

quote:
Originally posted by kamizuno:
Congrats mchlwise, you got your image in there! Still trying to get my smilie,

Try this.

Find a smiley on VisorCentral that you like.. right click on it and go to Properties. Copy the address URL and paste it as outlined by Petro's post. Hope this helps..

Joe

07-11-2000 03:10 PM

kamizuno
Member

Registered: Apr 2000
Location: Hawaii
Posts: 99

Yaaaay!!!

Thanks to Cerulean and Petro for all your help, I got my smilie . You all are the greatest!!!

PS-I didn't know getting a smilie URL was that easy, Geez, I learn something new everyday!!!

And now I have a cartoon face, glad I could find a copy of it on my Jaz cartridges. Thanks again guys !

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07-11-2000 08:26 PM

Petro
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Registered: Jan 2000
Location:
Posts: 241

quote:
Originally posted by mchlwise:
Petro - THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH.

Usually VisorCentral people are very helpful, and I was just a little surprised that it was so hard for me to information.

Thanks

My pleasure!
Enjoy!

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-Petro
Go to The Hunger Site and help eliminate hunger!
All you have to do is click one button! No catch, no personal information requested!!
Please go once a day! Every day!

07-11-2000 09:09 PM