I have dial up and have had no trouble at all with pages loading with signature images. So...I'll play along I love seeing everyones' dogs; gives me a reference point when I imagine the folks behind all of the good advice. I'll admit to loving having the excuse to show off my own pup too

 Quote: Kristel Smart

I have dial up and have had no trouble at all with pages loading with signature images. So...I'll play along I love seeing everyones' dogs; gives me a reference point when I imagine the folks behind all of the good advice. I'll admit to loving having the excuse to show off my own pup too

Yes, lots of sites, and even some games, are capable of running on 56 K dial-up, and especially on so-called high-speed dial-up, which makes more efficient use of its bandwidth by compressing some files (like pictures).

But an example of a site I just couldn't load with dial-up was a GSD site with many pictures on every part of the forum and big signature photos. (Now that I can load it easily, I don't care....... because it's one of those boards with every subject in the world addressed, dog-related or not, and pages and pages of tripe. I like this site SO much better! :grin

 Quote: Connie Sutherland

and pages and pages of tripe.

And not the good kind.

Just b/c I wanted to be apart of what y'all are doing, here is my
new signature. It's Zero, who's almost 3 yrs.

Edited to say the image is in PNG format, that is only 21.14 KB (21649 bytes) in size ,~)

Members should certainly speak up if they have a problem. I don't think anyone wants to make the board inaccessable to only high-speed users.

Martin-Cool shot! Nice effect.

OK, this is probably going to be unpopular but I'll risk it. I LOVE seeing everyone's dogs but if given a vote, I'd prefer to go to a place to see the pics, maybe like members bio but not quite that. I've been a member for about 1.5 years and I've never taken the time to click on member's bio unless it's a new post/thread of someone saying, hey, here I am, yada, yada.

Maybe, however, a new section could be created that is no text but everyone and a pic of their dog - sort of like a high school yearbook maybe - one pic after another of each member with their dog. I know I'd love to see that. No reading, no text just member's pics and their name along with their dog(s) and the dog's names.

Ever since the pics under your names got started recently, the posts go off to the right of my screen and now I have to scroll, not only up and down, but left to right (just like I do when I'm viewing a post in Member's Bio). For some reason the posts with pics don't fit in the box anymore.

So, for me, maybe I'm being cranky but it's rather annoying to have to scroll both ways.

Maybe instead of posting a pic under your text, it would be possible to post the pic right under your names (where the avatars are, not in place of them though) and thereby not have it affect the post's text portion going off my screen???

OK, I'll take my thrashing now .

Well I for one will be rolling thru funny dog stuff in my signature for awhile I have a small collection

 Quote: Judy Troiano

Ever since the pics under your names got started recently, the posts go off to the right of my screen and now I have to scroll, not only up and down, but left to right (just like I do when I'm viewing a post in Member's Bio). For some reason the posts with pics don't fit in the box anymore.


Maybe instead of posting a pic under your text, it would be possible to post the pic right under your names (where the avatars are, not in place of them though) and thereby not have it affect the post's text portion going off my screen???

OK, I'll take my thrashing now .

No thrashing at all! That would be really annoying to have to scroll both ways.

I'm wondering if that's some setting on your computer, because I have tons of space on either side and the pics are much less wide than the column of text. Seriously, that's odd, I don't have that problem. These photos we're posting are small.

What might be a happy medium is to have our pics as our avatars. I've seen that done elsewhere and it obviously decreases the size of image and prevents people from loading things that are too big.

I really love the photos but I don't want anyone else to be put out by them.

Well, I couldn't resist trying this out. That's Hans in his first real snow fall.

 Quote: dennis jones

Well I for one will be rolling thru funny dog stuff in my signature for awhile I have a small collection

LOL Dennis. When I first saw the pic (or a darn similar one) in your sig line somewhere else in cyberspace, it was captioned "Aim For The Cat."