Signatures

[JerryG]

And again!!!!

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forumfiles/18-32460-1250sig.gif

 

[JerryG]

And again!!

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forumfiles/18-32460-1250sig.gif

 

[JerryG]

OK......What do I need to do to get it right?????
JerryG

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forumfiles/18-32460-1250sig.gif

 

[markcg2000]

You were close! In your profile, wrap the HTTP... stuff with image tags like this:

[ image ]http://www.tractorbynet.com/forumfiles/18-32460-1250sig.gif [ /image ]
should wind up looking like this:

Just remove the spaces around the word image; I put those in so you could see what to do /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

<font color=green>mark</font color=green>

ps - looks great/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by markcg2000 on 02/07/01 11:49 AM (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[JerryG]

Thanks Mark,
I knew that it had to be simple, but we with simple minds have to hard time.

 

[RobS]

One more tip, if you preview your post before submitting it you can see any problems and not have to share them with the rest of us. Believe me, I use that feature a LOT!

And yes, nice looking image /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Harv]

Jerry -

I have noticed many things in life that are sooooooo simple -- once you know how. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

You're all done now (and looks great, by the way), but I would still encourage people to make use of the nifty "Preview" feature when testing out signatures and stuff. You can play all you want without actually posting a message. Gives you a little more privacy. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

 

[markcg2000]

Oh yeah! I think I average two previews per post /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif!


... and I still mess up /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

<font color=green>mark</font color=green>

 

[WVBill]

Jerry: Nice looking sig block. I like the script lettering.

Harv:
Is creating a signature block still a two-postings process even with preview? That is you've got to make one post with your sig block attachment before you can know what the file name is to go in and modify your profile and THEN you can preview your sig block on the next post, right (???). Or is there a "one step" way (i.e. another way to upload a sig file) - or is that what you meant by "silent upload".

My mistake was that I then went back and tried to "clean up after myself" by deleting the post that I used to upload my sig file.

 

[Harv]

<font color=blue>is that what you meant by "silent upload"</font color=blue>

Yep, you deciphered me correctly. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

The only way to do "silent uploads" at the moment is to upload your image to another server (not TBN) and reference that one from your profile. Of course, that requires that you have space available to you on another server and you know how to upload files there. That is, in fact, what I do.

For all practical purposes, using the attachment post is the best way to go.

 

[GrantMO]

Thanks Cliff, good job on yours too! Same goes for Bill and Jerry.

 

[WVBill]

A couple of people have asked in other threads how I did the animated sig block. So here goes.

In addition to whatever program you use to create/edit your signature block, you need what's called a "GIF animator" program. You can get these as shareware. Look under "Animation" at this web site
http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10012.html?tag=dir

The process is just like hand-drawn animation. You draw a series of pictures, each one just a little different than the previous one using your image editing software. This is the tedious part. Save each one with a different name (eg: sig01.gif, sig02.gif, sig03.gif ...etc.) I used ten individual pictures in my animated sig block. The more you use, the longer the animation and/or the "finer" the movement. Then you use the gif animation software to put them together in sequence and make them into one animated .gif file. This part is pretty easy - the software does most of the work - just tell it which pictures to use in what sequence.
If you don't like the animation, you can edit one or more of the individual pictures, or add more and re-assemble the animation file.

You can open up an animated gif file in a normal image editing program, but you will usually see just one of the individual pictures. You need to open it up using a gif animation program in order to extract all of the individual pictures.

 

[s1120]

OK, WVBill, that is cool. Should I ask what someone will do next?? Harv, any thing up your sleve??/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

 

[Harv]

<font color=blue>Harv, any thing up your sleve??</font color=blue>

Nothing but a hairy arm, so far. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

It has been suggested by those dear to me that I am perhaps spending too much time on tractor-related things, and that I might be well advised to focus more on making a living. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

I think there's a message hidden in there somewhere...

 

[s1120]

I think she is saying to get a job driving a tractor. Ya that’s it
/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[GrantMO]

I'm sure that's it Paul.

Now that's a cleaner signature!

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by grantmo on 02/10/01 08:32 PM (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[fishman]

Here's my attempt to add a signature.

 

[fishman]

Now let's see if this works.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forumfiles/18-33458-tibbsig.JPG

 

[GlueGuy]

Fishman,

Way too large for a signature bud. Try shrinking that puppy down a tad...

GlueGuy

 

[DFB]

Need to add image tags too.

DFB