[ Closed ] Linked sigs (Page 1 of 2)

Oh, and for those that have their images in their sigs, that would work too.

Unfortunately signatures have a maximum character length which includes the code used to create those links. So for those who have 5 character images in their signatures, I'm pretty sure they've maxed out their signatures and can't create these url links.

~Robert

Nice suggestion about putting images of your characters in the signatures.

An easy way around this - if you only want to add the pictures to your sig - is to make one wider picture of your different characters. So basically stick them together into one picture.

Yes. That is why I said 'if you only want to add the pictures to your sig'.

Jason, any chance you can email me how you code that? It displays funny on my phone and I can't read it (in post #1 above).

This is an excellent idea, and one I'll be implementing for my characters.

Ash

Try this, Ash (without the spaces):
[ url=(link to post)][ img](link to image)[ /img][ /url]

Cool, I've edited the most recent post from each of my characters to link to the bio. From now on, I'll use the linked image with IC posts.

Ash

Or "How to link a bio to the character image". Since there's a difference between the char bio and "your" bio.

I can do that.

Sounds like a good name for the link, and I'm sure it can wait a while to be uploaded.

Ash

I just had a thought that might take care of every one of our problems (edit: regarding character images, names, etc. in the signature).

Euan, how difficult would it be to create a "biography" field for each user in the profile section (visible to others when they visit the user's profile) with no character limit or something really big like 25,000 characters?

I'm thinking what we could do is, while people want to put their character images in the signature and so forth, it crossed my mind that character images along with their names and stuff could be entered into a profile for each user in which we can keep each character image and associated name and other information organized for quick-reference?

Obviously allowing for profile biographies, not everyone will use it in this fashion but that's at their discretion (not everyone puts their character images in their signatures either), but maybe we can set a precedent and it'll catch on?

Contrariwise, maybe we could also create a forum exclusively for member profiles where they can create a thread for themselves and organize things however they like there (though I think making the bio in the profile would be much more efficient and less prone to problems).

~Robert

Last edited by RLongtin (2013-02-06 16:59:02)

Well I don't know how many characters people would use but the signature one seems rather small for linking things like pictures and so forth. And to the 25,000, it was just a number I was throwing out there but realistically maybe something like 2500 is more appropriate?

~Robert

That sounds not wholly unlike the old country where when you went into a specific sim you could only choose from your characters that you had in that sim to post as...assuming we're talking about using signatures for storing character info.

~Robert