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Tip: How to put an image in the signature bar

Postby Dryadia2 » 09 Sep 2007, 01:23

Tip: How to put an image in the signature bar

The easy way:
1. Click 'User Control Panel' in upper right corner of page and open in one tab or window.
2. Click 'Profile' on left side under 'Options'
3. Click 'Edit Signature'
(to size image first, please see the following thread):
viewtopic.php?f=158&t=25034
4. To use a pic saved to your own PC, host on Image Shack (or other pic hosting website):
http://imageshack.us/
Browse to your pic, check "remove size/resolution bar from thumbnail?", click "host it", select "Direct link to image" at bottom of page, copy the code
5. Paste the code in-between the [img]imglinkgoeshere[/img] codes.
6. Click preview at the bottom of the control panel sig line box, and it should (theoretically) work.
7. If it works, click submit.

The trickier way:

1. Click 'User Control Panel' in upper right corner of page and open in one tab or window. (keep open and add to it later)
2. Click 'Profile' on left side under 'Options'
3. Click 'Edit Signature'
4. Then open any thread as if to make a regular post (in another window or tab), and click on the file attachment 'browse' button (found below the text box where it says 'Upload Attachment', Click 'add the file', to upload the image from your PC.
5. Click 'preview' to see that it works.
6. Then right click on the image, and choose 'properties', which opens a box.
7. Right click the top line which says 'location', and choose 'select all', then copy and paste that link between the [img]imglinkgoeshere[/img] codes, which you can now place in the control panel signature line box. (img button is on the top row, above the box where the text goes).
8. Click preview at the bottom of the control panel sig line box, and it should (theoretically) work.
9. If it works, click submit.
10. Then just close (without saving) the other window or tab where the images were uploaded.

Good Luck! :clover:

Please also see this link about 'Signature Block Standards' for image info:
viewtopic.php?f=125&t=21023

Please feel free to post here, to add other suggestions, or let me know if corrections need to be made to the above tip.
:dryadia: /|\

*edited to include 'the easy way'. :wink:
Last edited by Dryadia2 on 16 Dec 2007, 20:26, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Tip: How to put an image in the signature bar

Postby Kernos » 09 Sep 2007, 16:26

Thank you Dryadia.

Well done :kissie:

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