After joining this site a few days ago, I am addicted and read all of the current posts that I can. One thing that I have noticed and that I am annoyed by is the giant pics that people put in their signatures. I dont mind when the pics are in the left column and small, but some of the ones around here are getting way too big (like half a screen!). We dont need to forced to see your car every time you make a post, it gets kind of annoying to scroll through them. If you want, put a link to cardomain so we can look later, but this is almost as bad as those stupid pop-up windows you get on other websites. I dont mind seeing your car, it'* just seeing it 5 times on one topic that it kind of gets to me.
Ok, now that all of my anger is gone, I dont mean to offend anyone with this, I am just asking to take it down a notch.

I've often wondered what it was like to have a dialup and have to wait for all those to load. How would everyone feel about Hector and I thinking of a pixel size limitation or even a specific kb limit to a signature pic size? Mine isn't very big....people like to show off their cars, but we might be able to come up with a compromise.

Say one pic in a sig, and it has to be smaller than such and such?

I agree, your pic is decent size, it is the height that kills me. If I didn't have broadband I probably wouldnt use this site as much. Anything less than or equal to the box that I am typing this text in sounds good to me.

http://www.bonnevilleclub.com/forum/...pic.php?t=2256

The first two posts here with sig pics are mine and Dr. Seuss.

Mine is 32kb.
Doc'* is 96kb.

What kb limit would be good? 50? 75?

50 sounds decent to me

It does get annoying yes but I have gotten used to it because I know most people don't know how to format digital pictures correctly or for maximum size / space possible. Will, my image is 15k and is a jpeg. So yours is technically taking too big for its size. It is not optimized. If you want your pictures to load faster, format them in GIF format rather than JPEG. What I will do is "borrow" some of the members with big signatures, see how big there images are, and reformat them for better size without sacrificing quality. Then I will get back to you.

This is why on my Forum we've limited all Signature pics to MAx size of 130 high X 500 wide! It was too hard to read through the posts if they were any larger than that & too slow to load the pages too! There is some exceptions there I know, but we're working on it!

I agree all the way with you, those pics are just too dang big. Yes I know this forum is for Bonnevilles, but we don't need to see how big your car can get on the screen.

Are you done yet? Huh? How bout now? Almost done? Are we there yet?

Whenever you figger it out, lemme know.

I think 50k is decent. What we will do Willwren is enforce it, so if people have a little excessive pic we can ask them to downsize it or even help them optimize it for the sake of the community.