Images in signatures for Premium / Folding members

**Philip** · 10-06-04, 02:58 PM

As per members' requests, we've added Images in Signatures as an additional perk to Premium / Folding / SETI members. It involved some hacking of the vB code, and the solution might not be very obvious, but here is how it works:

In the User CP, under "Edit Profile" you will find an option called "Signature Image". If you enter the URL of an image there, it's going to appear right above your text signature. It still requires non-empty text signature to have the option to add signatures to posts at all.

Note that it will only work for Premium / Distributed Computing members that have signed up as per these instructions: http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=141335

Premium members have the option of using their SG hosting space to host signature images as well.

We reserve the right to disable this feature if abused by members.

If you have any questions about the feature, please post in this thread.

Enjoy !

Edit: I'm working on another feature for Folding members that will allow for dynamic auto-updating images in signatures that show their folding scores...

Here is the "beta" version of sig images (find your name if you're in the SG Team and use it as a signature image wherever you want):
http://www.speedguide.net/folding/sig/

***Roody*** · 10-06-04, 03:08 PM

Nice one Philip. I might get with you about this in the future to get the code to hack it on my site also.

**Philip** · 10-06-04, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by Roody

Nice one Philip. I might get with you about this in the future to get the code to hack it on my site also.

Thanks

You can have it whenever you want, just PM me.

**YeOldeStonecat** · 10-06-04, 04:00 PM

OK who's the whiz at making banners to fit in there.....if we can get several banners to choose from.
1)Something like "Team Speedguide Folding"
2)Something like "Speedguide Game Server"
3)Something like "Speedguide Premium Member"
and perhaps some others are reflect various combinations.

**Indy** · 10-06-04, 05:34 PM

Pretty cool

**Chris** · 10-06-04, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by YeOldeStonecat

OK who's the whiz at making banners to fit in there.....if we can get several banners to choose from.
1)Something like "Team Speedguide Folding"
2)Something like "Speedguide Game Server"
3)Something like "Speedguide Premium Member"
and perhaps some others are reflect various combinations.

I did that once before, everyone linked to my images and I ended up with a $500 bandwidth overage on my personal webspace with my ISP.

That sucked big time

***Roody*** · 10-06-04, 06:15 PM

Originally Posted by Philip

Thanks

You can have it whenever you want, just PM me.

PM sent.

**Brk** · 10-06-04, 06:53 PM

:::goes to make sure sigs are disabled:::

**Blisster** · 10-06-04, 07:36 PM

thanks guys!

**Illini25** · 10-06-04, 08:08 PM

What are the size restrictions for the sigs? Basically, what size is best?

**Norm** · 10-06-04, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by Burke

:::goes to make sure sigs are disabled:::

**YeOldeStonecat** · 10-06-04, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by Illini25

What are the size restrictions for the sigs? Basically, what size is best?

User Control Panel==>Edit Profile==> down on the bottom there, "Please limit to 500x60 pixels / 50 KByte images max."

**thechemgeek** · 10-06-04, 08:46 PM

SG Team Seti@Home doesn't count?

**Philip** · 10-06-04, 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by thechemgeek

SG Team Seti@Home doesn't count?

It does, all distributed computing teams do.

**thechemgeek** · 10-06-04, 09:00 PM

thanks. i've been part of seti@home from the beginning. also, i'm not against folding...but i spend my days working for a company that tests and manufacturers drugs. i do my part. trust me.

**Cypher** · 10-06-04, 10:29 PM

Many thanks for hacking the code to make this possible Philip.

It's sure to make a few people very happy I'm sure.

**JawZ** · 10-06-04, 10:31 PM

THANK YOU! YOU ROCK!

and sorry if I offended anybody with my previous brash request.....it was pure sarcasm although my request was serious and not to be taken as spam.

Hopefully, this will attract more people to help Fold...that is my number 1 reason for asking. If it also get smore people to buy premium memberships, that is also very cool.

So hopefully, people take advantage of this privilege while others see the benefits of folding/premium membership.

Now it's time for a contest and I will host it.

**Philip** · 10-06-04, 11:38 PM

You're welcome, we try to do what we can.

I have been working on another feature all afternoon, here is the "preliminary" result:

If you're folding for team SG, you can use the auto-updating images from here: http://www.speedguide.net/folding/sig/

The images/background are not finalized, still working on the code and rotation, so use at your own risk

When finished, they'll update daily to reflect your new ranking. I'm open to suggestions for improving it...

**Blisster** · 10-06-04, 11:41 PM

wow!! very cool!!!!!

**JawZ** · 10-06-04, 11:41 PM

Originally Posted by Philip

You're welcome, we try to do what we can.

I have been working on another feature all afternoon, here is the "preliminary" result:

If you're folding for team SG, you can use the auto-updating images from here: http://www.speedguide.net/folding/sig/

The images/background are not finalized, still working on the code and rotation, so use at your own risk

When finished, they'll update daily to reflect your new ranking. I'm open to suggestions for improving it...

dude....that so friggin rocks!!!!!!

When I was hosting the F@H sigs on my host, they wouldn't update...I must have fubared the cron jobs somehow