I just made a new sig:

 

 

 

 

 

 

For some reason its 200KBs :( Ive seen lots of animated sigs that are 30KB or less.

 

 

 

Does anyone know how to make the sig smaller? And why is the sig limit 30KB? :(

your image has 37 frames so that may be the reason why.

Lower the quality and number of frames and you should be fine

Fading transisions will always make a filesize massive. Its not nessesary for the sig. Take it off and save as jpg

But ive seen so many sigs with fading text that are quite longer and have more frames than mine, and are under 30KB.

Its got hardly anything to do with frames its about number of colours.

 

Your fading is over a gradient background so not only does it have to store the individual colours that make up the background but also the tints and tones of that colour while the text fades on top of it. The glow also means theres are more colour variants which in turn add to the increased filesize. Your sig is also very large, there is a lot of data to be stored there and its just not possible to get that within the limits.

K :( But i don't understand why its a limit of 30KBs, even with dialup, people can still read the forums while waiting for the images to load. 30KB isn't much :?

You're right 30kb is a small amount and it should be a little bigger. However its enough for most people and i've never had any problems complying.

 

 

 

200kb however is the other extreme and completely unneccesary to be that large.

Could you imagine if everyone had a 200k sig? 20 people posting on a page on a thread with a 200k sig would just be a huge pain, and not just for dailup users.

 

 

 

Don't you remember what it was like using dialup?

 

 

 

Anyway everyone else seems to manage with 30kb sig limit. Why can't you?

15 posts per page * 30kb per post (sigs only) = 450kb

 

 

 

That's almost half a MB already. You push that to 200kb per sig and you're up to 3MB per page of replys, for fancy images that serve no usefull purpose. That not only slows down dialup users, it's a slap in the face from Tip.It for letting people slaughter their browsing speed.

 

 

 

I have dialup at one house and 4mb cable at the other. Just loading 15 30kb signatures on dialup is a royal pain. And you want it LARGER? :evil:

15 posts per page * 30kb per post (sigs only) = 450kb

 

It's 20 posts per page now :wink:

15 posts per page * 30kb per post (sigs only) = 450kb

 

It's 20 posts per page now :wink:

 

 

 

So instead of being close to half a megabyte, it's over half a megabye... :wall:

I have dialup at one house and 4mb cable at the other. Just loading 15 30kb signatures on dialup is a royal pain. And you want it LARGER? :evil:

 

 

 

If signatures are a problem for you, open your profile and turn 'View other users signatures' to off.

I have dialup at one house and 4mb cable at the other. Just loading 15 30kb signatures on dialup is a royal pain. And you want it LARGER? :evil:

 

 

 

If signatures are a problem for you, open your profile and turn 'View other users signatures' to off.

 

 

 

I have dial up and its not a problem :-w

I have dialup at one house and 4mb cable at the other. Just loading 15 30kb signatures on dialup is a royal pain. And you want it LARGER? :evil:

 

 

 

If signatures are a problem for you, open your profile and turn 'View other users signatures' to off.

 

 

 

This is true, but not the point. It was an example.

 

 

 

You shouldn't be forced to turn off signatures just because someone thinks it's cool to have a huge animation while others easily keep within the 30kb limit.

Trust me. Our signature limits are awesome. I've been on other forums without signature limits and they irritate me. You have people with large, unnecessary tall sigs and people with 1mb gif animations. :roll: