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Old 02-06-2010, 06:40 PM
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im thinking we need bigger banner file-size allowances, like, 30kb? how bad could that be? i mean... look at a place like... gamerenders.com or something? they have huge banners in there sigs, and the site is still fast, or is it website-space that gets consumed? if so couldn't you then limit banners to a spesific dimension? i think it would be a great idea!
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still, people with older computer will just about die waiting for the page to load, tbh, i have a newer computer and i've tried to get on xmodsource with a 64 bit browser and it kills me, and i have a athion x2
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Old 02-06-2010, 06:51 PM
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Because there's absolutely no need for it.
On other forums, people put GIGANTIC banners in their sigs, promoting OTHER sites.
We don't allow promotion of other sites.
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Because there's absolutely no need for it.
On other forums, people put GIGANTIC banners in their sigs, promoting OTHER sites.
We don't allow promotion of other sites.
With that being said right there, here is a question now that is related to this thread.

Why is it the google banners promoting other sites? If there is a rule for us to not promote another site, then the whole "Team X.I." Google Banners, Teams sigs. and all of those items must be removed. It promotes other sites.

If you look around you can see ALOT of promotion of other sites.

I like this guys idea of making the XMS Banner larger, and the google ones smaller if possible.

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Old 02-06-2010, 07:15 PM
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With that being said right there, here is a question now that is related to this thread.

Why is it the google banners promoting other sites? If there is a rule for us to not promote another site, then the whole "Team X.I." Google Banners, Teams sigs. and all of those items must be removed. It promotes other sites.

If you look around you can see ALOT of promotion of other sites.

I like this guys idea of making the XMS Banner larger, and the google ones smaller if possible.

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Simple answer, they pay the bills around here Personally I'm against huge sigs because I want to read what people write, not a billboard 45 inches high with 2 lines of text above it.
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still, people with older computer will just about die waiting for the page to load, tbh, i have a newer computer and i've tried to get on xmodsource with a 64 bit browser and it kills me, and i have a athion x2
I have a blackberry storm, its a tiny thing and everyone knows, the blackberry storm has horible processing power, and im on verizon, using only 3G i load this site faster than MANY other sites! im not trying to start an arugment, but maby you need to get that looked at? I have 64 bit stuff all around me that works fine?

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Because there's absolutely no need for it.
On other forums, people put GIGANTIC banners in their sigs, promoting OTHER sites.
We don't allow promotion of other sites.
What if we want to promote ourselves? i mean, i had a sig that i could barely fit in the file size requirement, just because of what the image was of! you know that banner under my name? thats 19.1 kb, and that is in my opinion, no where near the quality i designed it to be.

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With that being said right there, here is a question now that is related to this thread.

Why is it the google banners promoting other sites? If there is a rule for us to not promote another site, then the whole "Team X.I." Google Banners, Teams sigs. and all of those items must be removed. It promotes other sites.

If you look around you can see ALOT of promotion of other sites.

I like this guys idea of making the XMS Banner larger, and the google ones smaller if possible.

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I dont realy mind the google banners, they are a bit obnoxious yes, and very misleading yes, but they provide income to the site, im just saying we should up the max filesize of a banner by 10kb! even dialup could handle that easily!
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^^^^^ read my post above yours, pretty much sums it up. Sorry to disappoint, but nobody wants obnoxious billboards.
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Its about image quality, couldn't it still have a dimension limitation..?? so no obnoxious banners, but you could upload a higher quality image..?? I hate huge banners too, but being able to have higher quality images would be better, just within a dimension limitation.
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Its about image quality, couldn't it still have a dimension limitation..?? so no obnoxious banners, but you could upload a higher quality image..?? I hate huge banners too, but being able to have higher quality images would be better, just within a dimension limitation.
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hopefully he will answer =)
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Only thing I ask is to up the size limit to like, 25kb. 19.45kb has always been a bit of a trick to work things down to. But I like the max-size requirements on pixel size, keeps things tidy.
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i think that higher quality sig banners would be awesome, but i've been on a few forums with humongous sigs and it's very annoying to scroll down the page, they're as bothersome as ads when they're huge.
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I'll look into changing the size after movie time is over if B1G dosent respond.
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thank you bart, maby you could lift it to like... 35kb? and have a like.. 150x450px limit? i think that would be good!
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thank you bart, maby you could lift it to like... 35kb? and have a like.. 150x450px limit? i think that would be good!
thats smaller than the one right now
the one right now is 900x145(i think)
i think we wanna stay toward the rectangle side not the square side

oh and BART there is a thread waiting for approve that a couple of us have been waiting for
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i could live with 900x145 =D
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i adjusted the limits, work for everyone?
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could you do 50?! that would be delicious =D
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why 50?
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ill show you =D

*notice how each is the exact same image with exact same dimensions, but just different image quality

*i couldnt get the 21kb image to show up, but you can click the link to see it, see how much the quality is degraded? and these are all JPEG images too.

here is 21kb


here is 53.4kb


here is how i intended it to look and designed it at 108kb
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