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    UbiDarla's Avatar Game Master
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    Ok everyone, we need to have a talk.

    First of all I just want to say how DELIGHTED I have been to see the creativity and artistry you use to create your signature banners. They look lovely. But we've run into a problem.

    Because we have so many gifted banner makers, some of you have started using two, three, or four banners in your signature. I've seen a couple of signatures that have several banners and half a page of quotes. This basically means that we have to scroll through your banner to search for your actual post every time you say something!

    We have threads for your awesome art and quotes you love. There are lots of places to express yourself. You don't need to have so much in your signature, which is just supposed to be one small line to give a taste of who you are!

    So here are the new rules.

    1. Banner makers, here's a special message for you! I have seen you come out with banners of many shapes and sizes. From now on, please make them as small as you can. They should be "short" and "wide" (but not too wide!), like the banners Salacia makes or mine below. This will result in the least amount of scrolling.

    2. You may only feature ONE full-sized banner in your signature. If you want two, you need to re-size them so that each one is only half size, as you can see in Jennifer Lovely Melody's signature. If one of the players with these skills would volunteer to create a tutorial on how to do this, it would be VERY helpful.

    3. You may include ONE line of text under your banner as long as it isn't too long. This can be a quote or song lyric, but it should be short. It would be best if you included this in your banner!

    If you have ANY question about whether your signature fits within these parameters, please post in this thread so that we the moderators and other players can go about helping you shorten it. If it's too long, you have ONE WEEK to create a new signature. Any signatures clearly in violation by Wednesday, September 14 may be deleted completely.

    Most forums have a signature size limit built in or don't allow pictures at all. I want to keep the signature space free so it's easy to create a signature within the parameters. I trust you awesome players to do your best to help with this!

    Again, I think your signatures are AWESOME, but we just can't look at that much content every time we want to browse the forums. Thanks for cooperating and I can't wait to see your creative but smaller solutions!!!
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    Well, can I keep this then? I really love it! Salacia makes these banners! And I just put a TEENSY Weensy wittle quote under it!
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    UbiDarla's Avatar Game Master
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    Here are some examples of signatures that are great!

    Here is one Salacia created for a club:


    Here is an example of making two small signatures, via Jennifer Lovely Melody:

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    UbiDarla's Avatar Game Master
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    Verity, those are adorable, but you need to resize them so that each one is half as big. They're so bright and vibrant they will still look amazing!
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    K, thx UbiDarla! Just a question.. How do you resize them?
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    Mikaela-Rose's Avatar Senior Member
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    Wow. This makes me feel horrible about my banners.....thanks.
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    Mikaela, you should be congratulating Sal for her banners! Also, that doesn't me yours are bad it's just that Sal's fits the limits
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    Thank you SO MUCH for making this! I'll try and see if I can get a tutorial up or something In the meantime, I have an idea.
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    Ok Darla! Is this one banner ok? Just this one! Oh please! I spent FOREVER making it!
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    sakuramei's Avatar Senior Member
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    I don't know what UbiDarla will say, but to give you an idea, Hermione, it's about 2x the size of both signature examples that UbiDarla put up. However, even if it's too big, you can just resize it--you don't have to remove it.

    Regardless, she did say only one line of text and you technically have 3.
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