If the avatar size was raised from 10k to maybe 30k, there would be much more scope for animation. Mine has gone very grainy!

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Create your cells in a a small pallette gif say 16 colors. or use Flash to reduce the pixel contrast. It looks a bit cartoony but it works ok for most animations. Then don't use 100px square. that's just the max. I made mine a bit smaller to get under the limit then reduced from 12kb 14 cells to 9 cells and 9kb and a bit by dumping a few of the cells. Now it has 11 cells only I think.

You can supercompress in Gif Construction kit and alike so that gets rid of a lot of weight too.

Just a thought.

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Hi Alan, Gung.

This is the board I was using:

Powered by: vBulletin Version 2.0.0
Copyright ©2000, 2001, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited.

This board is so similar I thought the Lamma version was just an upgrade with better graphics and a more attractive color scheme curtesy of WD and LG.

I went to check and there is both an Edit Profile and Edit Optionssection in the vBulletin Version.

Some of the options for viewing stuff are:

Show user's signatures in their posts? yes no
Show user's avatar in their posts? yes no
Show image attachments and [img] code in Posts?
Selecting no will show a hyperlink instead. yes no

Maybe this section doesn't exist on this board. WebDog where are you? We have a stick to throw for you to fetch.

I connect through cable 24/7 at 512Kb/sec (managing 300Kb/sec plus most of the time) so I am happy with the avatars. However if I was on AOL dial-up or something at 0.34kb/sec I guess I would consider turning off avatars if I could.

Worth checking for those that are on a slow connection. If there is no built in section for this it would be easy to add a yes no checkbox or radio button field to the profile section, add a new column to the dBase then run an if/else fork round the Avatar img code.


Lamma Gung: RE Underblurb. Site Titles Eh?

Ok I'll have :

Line 1 : Lord of Micturition
Line 2 : Keeper of the spoon

Many thanks

I have no idea what my underblurb should be. My brain is fried. Any suggestions?

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Sorry Dave,

Don't know you very well to help with anything apt.

You seem a brainy type though.

How about.

Senior Lecturer
Dept. of Budgerigars

Or something simple like.

"You'll not catch me without me trousers"

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