Can someone show me around.

Options; follow topic and signature? To start with, what are these? I see Archie has his usual winged car thing, how does one do that and is there a place for an under picture?

rkj Wrote:
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> Options; follow topic and signature? To start
> with, what are these? I see Archie has his usual
> winged car thing, how does one do that and is
> there a place for an under picture?

Sure, I'll see if I can help.

"Follow topic" means that you can tell the forum to send you an email if someone posts to a thread you're interested in.

Your signature is the thing that shows up at the bottom of every post you make. Mine is very simple. Others add pictures to theirs.

The picture over by your name (i.e. my iX logo or Archie/Peter's winged thing) is your avatar. In the control panel someplace is a line where your can set your avatar to be any picture you have on your computer. Note that it can't be any bigger than 100x100 pixels.

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Dave
'91 325iX

Hi Rick,

Glad to see you finally made your way into the inner sanctum

This place is looking more like home by the hour thanks to Super Dave

Thanks Dave, if I want a picture in my signature box how is that done and is there a pix size limit?

rkj Wrote:
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> Thanks Dave, if I want a picture in my signature
> box how is that done and is there a pix size
> limit?

Rick, your sig is just an addition to the message so pic size is not restricted but we should endeavour to keep the size down like we did on the old site for readability

Archeo-peteriX Wrote:
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> > Thanks Dave, if I want a picture in my
> signature
> > box how is that done and is there a pix size
> > limit?
>
> Rick, your sig is just an addition to the message
> so pic size is not restricted but we should
> endeavour to keep the size down like we did on the
> old site for readability

Thanks, is it a picture that has to be on the web already? and then you just insert the web address in the signature box?

rkj Wrote:
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> > rkj Wrote:
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> > > Thanks Dave, if I want a picture in my
> > signature
> > > box how is that done and is there a pix size
> > > limit?
> >
> > Rick, your sig is just an addition to the
> message
> > so pic size is not restricted but we should
> > endeavour to keep the size down like we did on
> the
> > old site for readability
>
> Thanks, is it a picture that has to be on the web
> already? and then you just insert the web address
> in the signature box?

I think that works best, then it's easier to change

Lets see, its getting to be around Christmas time!



perseverance furthers

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Archeo-peteriX
Rick, your sig is just an addition to the message so pic size is not restricted but we should endeavour to keep the size down like we did on the old site for readability

Yup, that's right. For instance, the pic of the Honda bike is cool, but it takes up a lot of screen real estate. Signature pics can be wide, but should be low in the vertical dimension so people don't get annoyed with it.

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Dave
'91 325iX

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Archeo-peteriX
Rick, your sig is just an addition to the message so pic size is not restricted but we should endeavour to keep the size down like we did on the old site for readability

Yup, that's right. For instance, the pic of the Honda bike is cool, but it takes up a lot of screen real estate. Signature pics can be wide, but should be low in the vertical dimension so people don't get annoyed with it.

Right on Dave...but that's such a beautiful ride that I can easily overlook it being bigger than the message

Rick, I see your erlier message...send me the original pic and I'll proportion it for you so it fits nicely in your sig

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Archeo-peteriX
Rick, your sig is just an addition to the message so pic size is not restricted but we should endeavour to keep the size down like we did on the old site for readability

Yup, that's right. For instance, the pic of the Honda bike is cool, but it takes up a lot of screen real estate. Signature pics can be wide, but should be low in the vertical dimension so people don't get annoyed with it.

Right on Dave...but that's such a beautiful ride that I can easily overlook it being bigger than the message

Rick, I see your erlier message...send me the original pic and I'll proportion it for you so it fits nicely in your sig

Thanks Buddy there's so much fun to do here, now if we only had some people in trouble!

The Honda is the Tokyo bike show presentation machine, I think it will be available to the public soon, nice hey B) CB1100RT



perseverance furthers

in the control center you can also change your settings to make your signature show up automatically, rather than check the box every time (assuming the default setting is the box unchecked...i can't remember now).