Put this:
"img src=url_of_image_here"

Replace " and " with < and >

where do you put the < and >?

On the top of the site, under the banner, where it says
"You have 0 new messages contained in your inbox.

There are 41 users online, 1 of them on your buddy list" and all that stuff, click on settings. In there, there is a box. You put that stuff in my post^^ there.

Ya I know but you said to post "img src=url_of_image_here"
and said to replace and with < and >

no no no, replace the quotes with a < and a >

&ltimg src="url"&gt On your sig page. In your profile stuff.

-Shoe

Thanks guys!

ShoeUnited Wrote: &ltimg src="url"> On your sig page. In your profile stuff. -Shoe

Shoe, it's: &lt;
Not: &lt

The way you said that came up as just &lt to me, instead of < (Mozilla on Linux).

while the subject is up. HOW THE HELL DO SOME PEOPLE GET THEIR SIG TO HAVE A TRANSPERENT BACKGROUND?!

*.gif and *.png are two popular formats that support transparencies.

-Shoe

Agilo Wrote: ShoeUnited Wrote: On your sig page. In your profile stuff. -Shoe Shoe, it's: < Not: &lt The way you said that came up as just &lt to me, instead of < (Mozilla on Linux).

I love linux. I really do. But it isn't my fault that Mozilla doesn't support less than symbols without the semicolon. I find it rather disturbing that you felt the need to bring it up. I am rather certain that if a person doesn't know how to add a pic to their sig using some of the most basic HTML they are most likely using Microsoft's Internet Explorer as their browser. I am happy though that even though you saw a flaw in my html you still found it useful.

-Shoe

ShoeUnited Wrote: I love linux. I really do. But it isn't my fault that Mozilla doesn't support less than symbols without the semicolon. I find it rather disturbing that you felt the need to bring it up. I am rather certain that if a person doesn't know how to add a pic to their sig using some of the most basic HTML they are most likely using Microsoft's Internet Explorer as their browser. I am happy though that even though you saw a flaw in my html you still found it useful. -Shoe

It's the same for Mozilla on Windows, btw.
And I was only correcting you, so you know how to use it in future use (if in this case it wasnn't just a typo).
No need to get pissed. :\

If you guys look at my quote, You'll see that i've tried to do what you guys have explained. But what does it mean when the box with an "X" in it shows up instead of the picture? Am i doing something wrong?

GraveDigger Wrote: If you guys look at my quote, You'll see that i've tried to do what you guys have explained. But what does it mean when the box with an "X" in it shows up instead of the picture? Am i doing something wrong?

*sigh*

Look closely:
<img src="_url_of_image_here_">

ShoeUnited Wrote: *.gif and *.png are two popular formats that support transparencies. -Shoe

Yes, but HOW? How does the transperent part become transperent?! is there a certain color to make it?

It's like learning how to post an image and not knowing what a URL is all over again! aaaaarrrrrggggg!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't be bothered with getting used to the look of Mozilla. I'm very weird about things like that.

what web sites do you use to upload your sigs from? cause i made a site on geocities and made a link to my image but for some reason it doesnt work do you have to use tripod or somthing?

You need to make sure you put the http:// part in front of your URL. That's probably why it isn't working.

fedegita Wrote: what web sites do you use to upload your sigs from? cause i made a site on geocities and made a link to my image but for some reason it doesnt work do you have to use tripod or somthing?

Hyuga Wrote: You need to make sure you put the http:// part in front of your URL. That's probably why it isn't working.

nope didnt work
this is what i wrote :

"img src=http://www.geocities.com/fedegita/brock_head.jpg"

(of course replacing " and " with < and > )

it comes up in the preview but not in any of my actual posts. please help i want brocks head to be in my sig

fedegita Wrote: Hyuga Wrote: You need to make sure you put the http:// part in front of your URL. That's probably why it isn't working. nope didnt work this is what i wrote : "img src=http://www.geocities.com/fedegita/brock_head.jpg" (of course replacing " and " with ) it comes up in the preview but not in any of my actual posts. please help i want brocks head to be in my sig

I think Geocities doesn't allow remote linking.
YOu need another host.

fedegita Wrote: Hyuga Wrote: You need to make sure you put the http:// part in front of your URL. That's probably why it isn't working. nope didnt work this is what i wrote : "img src=http://www.geocities.com/fedegita/brock_head.jpg" (of course replacing " and " with ) it comes up in the preview but not in any of my actual posts. please help i want brocks head to be in my sig

Try Angelfire.com perhaps, and you can give them a made up email account if you don't want them to have yours.

Agilo: ok note taken pissedness refrained.

Sig Kid: Yahoo/geocities don't host, there are a few host sites out there, one of which is Sharemation, some web hosts have free hosting, and I have used that from time to time. And there are a few other places, and you may even get somebody nice enough to host it for you.

Gl1tch: Now if you don't want to use Paint Shop Pro (which I have never used) and don't have Adobe Photoshop (which I love) there is an alternative. Let's go with basics here open mspaint (or your favorite editing proggie) and open your picture(jpg, gif, bmp) and make the background you want all one color that isn't used by the template. I'll use your sig as an example it is mostly blue. So you can pick any color that isn't the main part of your picture. And everything that you want to be transparent you color. Magenta and Green (255G) are popular colors to choose. And you fill in the areas that you want transparent.

Save that image as a 24-bit Bitmap file. And (providing you don't have another) use your favorite image viewing program, or download IRFanview; ACDSee might work, but I prefer IRFanview. Open that 24-bit picture in IRFanview click on file -> Save As choose *.gif as the file extension and it will pop up a menu on the right. One of the options is "Choose transparent color" Select that. When it goes to save it will bring up a mini-picture and you select the color that you want to be transparent by clicking on the picture. Make sure you click on the area that you want transparent.

And boom, it's done.

Now there is a small hiccup in the happiness of life here. If it was a jpeg file jpegs blur to give it a photo-realistic look. gifs have no anti-aliasing. So they can look jagged depending on how many pixels you have in the picture. But if you are drawing your pictures you can just scan at a higher resolution, I have also manually edited pixels to make it look less jagged. But that is up to the author.

Anyway, I hope that helps somebody hehe.

-Shoe