Postby Kaligraphic » Wed Jan 05, 2005 2:36 am
A wallpaper is the picture you put on your computer's desktop. It would have a resolution of 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, or 1600x1200.
A banner is a web-standard image size designed for advertising, 468x60. It can also refer to banner variants like the half-banner (234x60) and, somewhat less commonly, the vertical banner (120x240).
A sig is a block appended to your posts, and helps to distinquish you from other posters. Some (many) people include graphical images, often displaying their username, but others (again, many) prefer text sigs. A sig image is an image designed for such use.
Don't go around putting wallpapers in your posts unless you're posting in the wallpapers part of the site. Elsewhere, it would just hog bandwidth.
To add a sig, click on "user cp" and then "edit signature". this will bring you to a section where you can (no surprise here) edit your signature. If you make or obtain a sig image, you will need to find a host for it before you can put it up. I can host sig images or suggest a good free host if you'd like. The way you put it in is by using img tags like linking to any image on these boards - standard vBcode.
Of course, you have to keep things reasonable - no 15MB animated gifs or 700 images, we don't want to kill users on 56k dialup. I favour the use of either A: up to six lines of text OR B: one image of up to 500x200 (actually, I think this was the site that said up to 470, so 470x200). (sliced images count as one if they display as one.)
The cake used to be a lie like you, but then it took a portal to the deception core.