Originally Posted by Crimson Avenger
Troy,
Thanks. Glad to be able to help support the bandwidth and storage expenses.
By the way, the interface was exactly as described, painless, and all but instant. Well done.
On the issue of images in signatures, please NO! Even non-animated signature images are distracting. I like that we have Avatars and not signature images. I know other forums have the reverse, no avatars, but do allow large (100x600) signature images. The signature images tend to be very complicated and detract from the information contained in the posts. I prefer our somewhat more professional appearance.
Allowing signature images also defeats the beautiful characteristic of the current HTML output by the forum--you can make the window very narrow, and the text re-flows to a newspaper column style width for quick reading. My fear is that image signatures would defeat that. I strongly urge you not to adopt and allow signature images.
Regarding animated Avatars, they're cool for about the first two cycles, then they're quite annoying and distracting. a few of the avatars have even been offensive. I'm certainly glad that the Mac OS ten version of Mozilla allows animations to be disabled.
Again, thanks Troy. I'm glad to be able to directly support the costs of the forum. Yours is a clean well run forum, with a minimum of commercial distractions. Those ads that we do have are not obnoxiously placed in the way. I've found out about several companies and products by following the links. I'm also more than happy to pay a subscription fee to help keep us away from having to run too many commercials splattered all around the content to pay for the upkeep, bandwidth, hardware, electricity, hosting fees, etc. I look at it more like a Public Radio model than a commercial television model. Bravo!
Well said on all aspects. I personally advertise on Troy's websites completely differently than others mainly because of the "feel" of the format. Best forums around.....hands down.