Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't figure out how to add a picture to my signature. The edit signature page makes reference to the URL where the picture is located, but the picture I want to use is on my hard drive. I don't have a Web page.

HELP!

 

Upload the picture to your gallery here on NAM, then use the URL that's assigned to your picture once it's in the gallery.

Please ensure that your signature conforms with the size requirements in the site guidelines.

 

Sounds simple enough. I'll give it a try. Thanks!

 

Mr. Econ & mbabischkin,

Thanks for the question and answer. I was having the same problem. I had loaded in some photos in my gallery and wasn't sure what the URL number was. I chose the photo from the gallery that I wanted and then right clicked on the photo to "properties" then the URL comes up. It should be something like https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ium/??????.JPG.

The only problem I am now having is trying to size the photo. It takes up almost the whole page. Any ideas?

Thanks

 

Ack!! Norm, that's HUGE!

Are you using Windows or Mac?

 

I am using Windows. I used one the photos I had already downloaded to the NAM gallery. Then I clicked "add image" and then it popped up. I tried to make it smaller but I was not able to. Can you tell me what I should do to make it smaller?

 

I went to my photos in flickr.com right click in properties and then right click on your photo and copy the url there.

 

Thanks I'll try that. I noticed that the first time I entered the photo's URL number after 500/ it said medium. I thne went back and clicked again and saw thumbs. I tried that but the phoho does not come up. Is there another word I can enter like: small?

 

You could start with the image resizing tool from Microsoft, which you can get from them for free here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

To use it after installing, just right click on the photo you want to resize and select the resolution, my suggestion is to use the smallest. Then upload the file it creates.

fix8ted your sig is too large, please make it smaller.

 

is that better!

 

 

Thanks you guys for all your help. Hope this looks a little better.

 

I hate fullsize pics just slapped into sigs. I personally prefer banners. Anyhow, I hope you don't mind, but I dorked around with MS Paint for about 5-7 minutes and came up with this.

Somewhat mimic's your Mini's paint scheme.

 

Norman&Jessica your car looks great in the above photograph.For not being computer literate i'll stick with what i've got.Q&P

 

My problem was trying to get the picture to meet the site guidelines:

SIGNATURES
A maximum of 300 characters OR an image with dimensions of 500 pixels wide by 100 pixels and filesize of 40k or less is allowed.

I think I finally achieved it, but the quality of the picture sucks. I see a lot of sigs that seem to exceed the requirements, or maybe they have some techniques that I don't know about, and are quite clear and detailed. Anyway, I have something that works for now, so thanks to mbabischkin. Perhaps the signature edit page should have better instructions for us computer neophites.

 

The fact is, we don't enforce the sig guidelines too strictly. As long as you're close and your sig isn't a multi-megabyte image that takes up a huge chunk of screen real-estate then you don't need to worry about it.

There are some board where they are very stringent about the sig guidelines, you can't even upload a picture that exceeds the guidelines, and if you put too much text in your sig you get a nastygram from the site mods...

Honestly I thought the sig guidelines were silly, that is until I visited a site that didn't impose any on their members. I keep my screen resolution pretty high, and even still I quickly got annoyed by reading posts that were only a paragraph or two long and then having to scroll pasts these huge sigs with multiple pictures of amember's car, girlfriend, ex-girl friend, cell phone, favorite railroad logo, and then a vanity graffic...

 

Sunday evening, Jan. 1, 2006

Hello to all who helped with the how-two for a signature. Here is my
attempt....hope it works....Reinheim

 

well, so much for that...back to the drawing board....probably need to activate the sig in some way...Reinheim

 

in this holiday season tis a good deed to help the needy...and I need help to activiate my sig....thanks...Reinheim

 

moved to site feedback

Reinheim: I fixed your sig a bit. We use bbcode on NAM, not html for signature coding. Hope that helps.

 

thanks for your kindness...Reinheim

 

That's cool! Thank You.

 

Wagnbat, thanks it looks better.(Salamat)

 

Glad you likey!

 

How about my one? Eventually managed it phewww Too big or not?