Dynamic signatures

[Lasse D]

A lot of Eurobrickers have a lot of awesome MOCs, MODs, reviews and even comics, and the signature offers a great way to promote your own contributions to the community.

Unfortunately you can only have a limited amount of pictures in your signature before some evil walrus admin comes in and whacks your sig out of orbit.

But what if you want to show more than just your latest creations?

There is a reasonable limit on the size of the signature: pictures take time to load and bug down the browsing experience.

Animated gifs are not a solution either: They are even worse when it comes to bandwidth... and go against most forum guidelines.

Here's my solution: Dynamic pictures!

OK. That didn't explain much. Let me show it to you then:

See the pictures in my sig? Now reload this page.

Did the pictures change? (if not: reload again)

Now. If you aren't too unlucky, the pictures should change, but they are not animated gifs, flash vids or the result of a hack into the forum. I have simply set up my server to serve random images!

Advantages

- No heavy animations. All the heavy stuff happens on the server.

- The pictures take the exact same bandwidth from you as similar fixed ones of same size.

- You only have to change the pictures on the server when you make something new.

Disadvantages

- It requires that you have access to a server.

Now. Would anyone, other than me, be interested in dynamic pictures?

I can make a guide (and a download site) if you think this might be worth trying out.

[Guss]

you did it very well ^^ I actually know how to do, I just don't want to (too lazy^^ ), and I also don't want to put images in my signature^^.

Edited October 17, 2008 by Guss

[Lego12]

That looks cool! Making a tutorial would be great!

[Skinny Boy]

I would also love to see a tutorial. Thats one great idea

[Siegfried]

Unfortunately you can only have a limited amount of pictures in your signature before some evil walrus admin comes in and whacks your sig out of orbit.

Too true! I've been considering doing the same... but I never have as I'd like the links to change too and that would be too complicated. But I think the tutorial would be appreciated by some.

[Lasse D]

After some day I can now conclude that there might be some interest in knowing how to do it, but little interest in actually having a dynamic signature, so I have added a download-and use tutorial, but I will not go on and make a server where people can get their own.

I will continue on using it though... until I find something even better.

[KimT]

After some day I can now conclude that there might be some interest in knowing how to do it, but little interest in actually having a dynamic signature, so I have added a download-and use tutorial, but I will not go on and make a server where people can get their own.

I will continue on using it though... until I find something even better.

I'll go check it out immediately.

Thanks Lasse.

Neeeerd

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I don't get it.

Please explain "how to" a little more

[Lasse D]

Not an idiot, but a victim to a formatting error.

A paragraph was missing and had been replaced by a duplicate of another

It should be clear as mud now.