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Kelly
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 Posted: January 20, 2007 11:32 am Post subject: Why? |
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| Why are the avatars only allowed to be 80x80??? Sorry,Im just nosey about that stuff. |
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| Posted: January 20, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject: Re: Why? |
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| Kelly wrote: |
| Why are the avatars only allowed to be 80x80??? Sorry,Im just nosey about that stuff. |
I'm not sure, but I figure it is because avatars and pictures in signatures use up a lot of bandwidth, and bandwidth is pretty expensive. Keeping pictures smaller saves money. 
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| Posted: January 20, 2007 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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| oh they pay for it??? |
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| Posted: January 20, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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| oh they pay for it??? |
Yep. Running this whole thing costs money. If we were to use bigger avatars it'd cost even more money. Keeping them small helps keep the forum free.
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| Posted: January 20, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| oh ok:D thankies |
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Alastor Moody
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| Posted: January 21, 2007 1:57 am Post subject: |
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yes but we stell git stupid google adds when you click on a forum section wish they called bye that out
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| Posted: January 21, 2007 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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i got a firewall yay. that sucks u have to pay for websites. u should get probaords its jsut the same as this and its free.
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| i got a firewall yay. that sucks u have to pay for websites. u should get probaords its jsut the same as this and its free. |
But by paying for it it gets it's own domain name [potterforums.com], and probably quite a few other benefits as well.
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oh i get ur won domain to ur lucky lol did ever hear of free weebs thats what my website runs off of. im 13 and my mom and dad wouildnt let me use there money for a website
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Alastor Moody
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www.domain.com bye having your own domain like that allowes search engens to find it and more poeple join it with out advertizing plus there is less ads and much more custumization options to the administrator
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DarMonkey sets up the controls for the forums. So he can make it bigger/smaller if he wants.
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well consitering the price of bandwith he mite just leave it as it is
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Wow, that's a lot of discussion on the topic. To answer the original question, the real answer is avatars larger than 80x80 can cause the forums to display poorly. Larger images would cause the left hand column to be expanded vertically and horizonally. This leaves less room for the forum text, as well as requiring more vertical scrolling.
As for bandwidth, nowadays the cost is insignificant. This website is hosted on my dedicated server. I run a small business that offers web design and hosting. Therefore, bandwidth is not an issue.
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i see i dont like scrowling all that much has a point there
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| Posted: January 26, 2007 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| DarMonkey wrote: |
Wow, that's a lot of discussion on the topic. To answer the original question, the real answer is avatars larger than 80x80 can cause the forums to display poorly. Larger images would cause the left hand column to be expanded vertically and horizonally. This leaves less room for the forum text, as well as requiring more vertical scrolling.
As for bandwidth, nowadays the cost is insignificant. This website is hosted on my dedicated server. I run a small business that offers web design and hosting. Therefore, bandwidth is not an issue. |
ohhhhhhhhhhh ok.thanks=) any one know where i can get some avatars by 80x80??? |
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