For a little history, the graphics in profiles started a couple of years ago on the original USRX thread as a "Tacky Profile" contest. It get started between me, Pullin-GS (in his former life), Scrapps, Jeff Forrest, and quickly spread to others. (It was an extremely active thread back then. So active in fact that it provoked Brad into programming the first Clubhouse - a kind act that probably kept the whole lot of us from being banished for life.) I took the "high road" with some custom gif89s and lost. Jeff won the tacky award for a profile that even a colorblind person would find garish. Pullin, our resident Certified Cisco Engineer, won for the funniest graphic: pipeline.com
Back in those days the charts each had a comment thread that appeared below the chart. Those postings were limited to one or two line comments, but allowed anonymous posting by members and non-members alike. Well, Pandora's box having already been opened, it didn't take long for everyone to figure out how to imbed images on the chart threads, and boys being boys...... Brad soon had to filter out the html code, then the anonymity, and then finally the chart comment threads altogether. But, I digress........
If you don't mind sifting through messages, a lot of "how to" messages can be found in the early part of this thread: #Subject-12305
FWIW, I eventually removed all of my graphics from my profile after being repeatedly annoyed waiting 5 minutes on a T-1 for profiles like Lisa's and Moonray's to load. :-)
Nonetheless, with some modest graphics from fast servers and a few color and font changes, you can make an attractive profile without creating an albatross.
Here are some basic font commands (omit the space after the "<"):
<font color=navy>This would be navy blue.</font>
< i><font color=navy>This is the same thing in italics.</font>< /i>
< i>< b><font color=navy>Once again, in bold italics.</font>< /b>< /i>
<font size=6>This would be a larger typeface.</font>
< b><center><font color=green size=8>This would be a big, bold, green centered sentence.</font></center>
Hummm... less than 100k 'til #reply-6000000. Better start getting limbered up. :-) |
