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  • duncan drennan
    Email problem

    • Jun 2006
    • 2642

    #1

    signature pictures

    I was messing around with my signature, and saw the option to upload a signature picture. I did this, and the picture displays correctly in the area for this, but when I try to insert it into my signature I just get the link text, rather than the actual picture. Any ideas what the problem is?

    When I click the "Insert Signature Picture" link, it places these tags (without spaces)

    [SIGPIC ][/SIGPIC ]

    and this text appears in the actual signature,

    image.php?u=19&type=sigpic&dateline=1157275752

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  • Dave A
    Site Caretaker

    • May 2006
    • 22803

    #2
    Oh boy - a new toy. It actually works like that!!!

    You can drag around the code to relocate the picture too. Could take a bit of tweaking to get a neat format going, though. Probably best if you are putting in a logo.

    Here's my code for the signature below:

    PHP Code:
    Bad regulation is worse than no regulation.
    [
    SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
    My blog: [URL="http://www.alcocks.co.za/soapbox.htm"]Dave's Soapbox[/URL]
    My business: [URL="http://www.alcocks.co.za/"][FONT="Arial Black"]Alcocks[/FONT][/URL] [URL="http://www.alcocks.co.za/electrical.htm"]Electrical[/URL] [URL="http://www.alcocks.co.za/pest.htm"]Entomological[/URL] [URL="http://www.alcocks.co.za/hygiene.htm"]Hygiene[/URL] 
    Last edited by Dave A; 03-Sep-06, 05:01 PM.
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    • duncan drennan
      Email problem

      • Jun 2006
      • 2642

      #3
      I see the light!

      I figured out what my problem was...I had it set to not display images inline (in the Edit Options section), so neither my pic, nor yours displayed, just a link to the picture. Turned on the option to display pictures and viola!

      I also wrapped my logo in the [url] tag so that it is clickable

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      • I Robot
        Administrator

        • May 2006
        • 783

        #4
        Duncan, could you post the code as an example for others?

        Just wrap it in the php code tags so that it isn't executed when the page is rendered.
        All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to stand by and do nothing.

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        • duncan drennan
          Email problem

          • Jun 2006
          • 2642

          #5
          code for sig

          Here it is,

          PHP Code:
          Duncan Drennan
          [url="http://www.engineersimplicity.com"][SIGPIC][/SIGPIC][/url]

          [
          url="http://www.engineersimplicity.com"]Start finding solutions and building better products now![/url] | [url="http://www.engineersimplicity.com/blog/"]Blog[/url

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          • duncan drennan
            Email problem

            • Jun 2006
            • 2642

            #6
            Just realised that I can add a tooltip to the image in my signature which will hopefully result in the search engines picking up my company name by doing this,

            PHP Code:
            Duncan Drennan
            [url=http://www.engineersimplicity.com][SIGPIC]Engineer Simplicity[/SIGPIC][/url]

            [url=http://www.engineersimplicity.com]Find solutions and build better products now![/url] | [url=http://blog.engineersimplicity.com]My blog[/url] 
            Note the "Engineer Simplicity" between the SIGPIC tags. Hovering your mouse over the image will bring up the tooltip "Engineer Simplicity". Hopefully the search engines will pick up on this.

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            • Dave A
              Site Caretaker

              • May 2006
              • 22803

              #7
              I've just looked at the source code. It gives the image an ALT tag - a good move indeed!!

              /Starts playing with signatures again
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