Signature files and Animated Gifs

[james_uk@ebay.com]

Good Morning,

I am afraid to say that we have arrived at a post I had hoped I would not have to make 😞 I will be posting this message across most of the main boards throughout the day.

The size of Signature Files in posts is starting to get a little too out of hand. Lately the size has been creeping up and in some cases there are two or three different things in sig files pushing out the size of posts. In addition the use of animated gifs has been creeping back in along with ad's for sales and attempts to hide links in text.

For the most part I've tried to be as flexible as possible, overlooking the ones that are a little bigger than the recommendations. When they have been too large I've contacted members directly to ask them to resize them, and members have been happy to comply. This is no longer an option as it is taking up too much time due to the number of people needing to be contacted.

Were these reported Liveworld will act on them, and I don't want to see anyone getting a warning over something easily avoided.

At this point I would like to remind everyone about the signature guidelines, which you can find here: http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=400055459&tstart=0

I hope we can work within these guidelines and bring the threads back to a point where posts are easy to read without too much scrolling.

I appreciate your help on this.

James

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I Pink therefore I am B-)

[blue*smartie]

Hiya, not sure what you mean by favourite file - do you mean that you have already uploaded it to tinypic/photobucket?

[tinalu3]

THANKS FOR ANSWERING NO SOMEBODY SAID ABOUT PHOTO BUCKET AND I UPLOADED IT AND IT TURNED UP ON MY GOOGLE HOMEPAGE,REALLY AM AN AMATEUR!I JUST GOOGLED THIS PICTURE AND WHEN IT CAME UP PUT IT IN MY FAVOURITES ON MY GOOGLE HOME PAGE SORRY ITS ALL IN CAPS X

[blue*smartie]

No worries, hope you are still about

I made this for you 😄



Hope you like it

All we have to do it get it on your sig - dont worry I will talk you through it

[blue*smartie]

Got an animated one too - although they are strictly allowed

[tinalu3]

OMG that is perfect thankyou so so much

[blue*smartie]

Ok you ready?

Right click on the one that you want
Select Save As

And save it to your computer

Let me know when you have done that

[tinalu3]

Im here waiting with my pen & paper !!!

[blue*smartie]

:^O Bless

If you do it as I type - I can talk you through screen by screen

[tinalu3]

ok s orry took so long wasnt right clicking its now saved in my computer on my photos:-D lived on the edge and took animated if I do this ok I WILL GO BACK AND GET THE OTHER SORRY CAPS AGAIN!!

[blue*smartie]

Go to this site http://tinypic.com/

Click on the Browse Button
Find the pic on you computer (its proably in the picture folder)
Click Open

Then Click on Upload Now


You will see four boxes with code in

You want to copy the code in the TOP box (HTML for websites)

Then come back to Ebay

In the top right corner of the screen you will see the word Settings

Click on it, a box will appear

Paste the code in the box

Press Save

Come back here and make a post - hopefully it should work

[blue*smartie]

You ok - or shall I send out a search party ?:|

[tinalu3]

hello has this worked?

[blue*smartie]

Yay 😄

Right all we need to do know is tidy it up a bit

Go back to the settings box and type this at the BEGINNING of the code




Press SAVE

And no I have spelt centre wrong - its got to be done the American way for it to work

[tinalu3]

omg thankyou soooooooooo much cant take all the credit my daughter (eldest) just came in and rocked about because I had written down the code by hand!!! dont laugh she had had several wines but still did it while talking on her mobile .I feel so old thankyou so muchxxxxx

[blue*smartie]

No worries, its not really something you can work out for yourself

^^ dont for get to do the centring etc (if you want it in the centre that is)

[tinalu3]

think Ive done it thank you once again just what I wanted going to post a thread singing your praises I think the dumbo is sooo cute ,but it also sums me up computerwise xx

[blue*smartie]

Bless you, not need to start a thread

I already know how brilliant (and modest I am) :^O :^O

[country*chic*crafts]

testing

[country*chic*crafts]

trying again