A suggestion, code to limit the maximum size of an avatar? the massive ones make page layout inefficient and require a lot of scrolling. Not the end of the world, but irritating.

Just floating this for reaction and can investigate some CSS or whatever that might do it if needed.

I don't think there should be a limit on the size of pretty women.

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What size would you suggest? are you just thinking width or height too?

Cheers

Mook

Nothing over a big cuddly size 20.

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Originally posted by Confused but excited.
Nothing over a big cuddly size 20.

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I think it depends on what the avatar is.
If its some big ugly bloke - the smaller the better
If its some hot woman or car - the bigger the better

I think on the whole Avitars do not cause any problems. The only oversize one I've seen was posted by a member asking for help on how to reduce it !!

RD

The sites recommendation, as stated in the 'help' section is 150 pixels wide for avatars......

and not all members of this car builders site are male and over 18 ...........

Fozzie (Admin)

What about a limit on the size of photos posting within messages. Quite regularly they are bigger than normal screen resolutions. I think on pistonheads they get reduced to 750px in the longest direction.

I've been on other forums where the avatar is vetted when you enter it on the profile page - if it's bigger than the rules allow, it doesn't get loaded. Simple.

The other way is to fix the size of the left-hand column, so if the avatar's too big then it falls out of the frame.

I still wish that we had a 'no avatars' switch, as those of us who work in a busy office find it difficult to display the site during the day...

i find long avatars as, if not more, annoying as massively wide ones.

when i'm at uni, i'm on my laptop and that means i have to scroll with the side of the touchpad. it takes aaaaaaaaages to read some threads if everyone has silly long avatars. usually full length women................i come to a car forum for the cars though, so i'm swayed in the small avatar direction

tom

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Originally posted by Fozzie
The sites recommendation, as stated in the 'help' section is 150 pixels wide for avatars......

and not all members of this car builders site are male and over 18 ...........

Fozzie (Admin)

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Originally posted by indykid
when i'm at uni, i'm on my laptop and that means i have to scroll with the side of the touchpad. it takes aaaaaaaaages to read some threads if everyone has silly long avatars. usually full length women................i come to a car forum for the cars though, so i'm swayed in the small avatar direction

tom

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You're over by 5 pixels Fozz, shame on you

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Originally posted by David Jenkins
I've been on other forums where the avatar is vetted when you enter it on the profile page - if it's bigger than the rules allow, it doesn't get loaded. Simple.

The other way is to fix the size of the left-hand column, so if the avatar's too big then it falls out of the frame.

I still wish that we had a 'no avatars' switch, as those of us who work in a busy office find it difficult to display the site during the day...

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Originally posted by donut
You're over by 5 pixels Fozz, shame on you

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Originally posted by McLannahan

Not perfect but you could disable images showing? In IE it's in Internet Properties under the Advanced tab and then the Multimedia section. It's possible in FFox too but can't remember where the option is off hand? If the site (which this has for most graphics) has used the ALT tag correctly you only need hover over each image to see what it should be!

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Yeah, most of the buttons are icons so you can't just turn off images. Plus, I like seeing people's avatars, I can spot familiar posters by their picture much more intuitively than by reading a dry list of names.

I just find the sizes of some of them annoying. but, I'm an old time internet purist / pedant / grump.

If everyone could configure the maximum dimensions of avatars and inline images they wanted to see.. hooo, how sweet that would be.

Was that the wild size Fozzie or the wide size

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Originally posted by rusty nuts
Was that the wild size Fozzie or the wide size

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For Firefox user there is an add-on called 'Image Zoom' that lets you resize the pictures in a webpage, I find it quite handy for all the massively oversized pictures. You do have to click on each image to resize it though, there's probably a different add-on out there that'd do it automatically...

I use Firefox at home, and can use Adblock to 'lose' unwanted pictures in just a few seconds.

Unfortunately (in many ways) my new job is at an office that's 100% Microsnot, so I'm stuck with IE. Very sadly.

I really miss Firefox at work...

In fact looking at it, it appears the latest version can resize all of the oversize images in a page now, instead of doing it one one by one. You learn something new every day


Just to rub it in some more

[Edited on 30/11/07 by martyn_16v]

Cool, I'll have to look into this image zoom thing. If it caches the settings per-image (so I can permanently *plonk* annoying avatars) that would be shweet.