AoE3H Signature Guide - Age of Empires III Heaven Forum

posted 01-31-05 08:33 AM EDT (US)

(Fixed by Echo)
The Signature Guide
After you have registered, you may set your sig(signature). This is a piece of text that you would like to be inserted at the end of all your posts, a little like having headed note paper.

NOTE: HeavenGames does NOT allow pictures in signatures. Therefore, the [Image URL not allowed: tag is disabled. However, you can use smilies in your signature, but don't put more than 5 in them, as these take up a lot of bandwith + loading time for slow connection users. HTML code, javascript, php and the quote tags are disabled as well.

If the administrator has enabled signatures, then you will have the option to include your signature on any posts you make. If you have specified a signature, then the board will automatically append your signature to any messages you post.

You can set your signature by editing your profile and clicking on the "Edit Signature" link.

To adjust your profile go to the editing profile section of the forum. Go to the bottom of that page and insert anything you want as your signature.

Signature Creation

You can create various signatures, with colors or any other features. You can use whatever you like. Mind that most forums don't prefer using racistic, hate, violent or sex related words/pictures/html.

Creating a signature is fairly easy. Here are some examples of what you could use in your signature:

- Colors
- UBBcode
- Quotes
- ASCII art
- Links (you may not use any links that are against the CoC, such as peer2peer or sex related links. Links to scn teams or clan websites are allowed though)

The first thing you should do is decide what do you want do display in your signature. Let's take a quote for example:

"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." - John M. Ford

Next, we decide what kind of colors we use. We use RED in our quote:

"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." - John M. Ford

Color tags:

-->[c=#CC0000]"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." - John M. Ford[/c]-->

Then, we decide wether we want to add some UBB code. We will use Bold and Italic.

"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." - John M. Ford

Tags used:

-->[c=#CC0000][b][i]"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." - John M. Ford[/i][/b][/c]-->

Now we have created a nice sig. But, we can make it even look cooler, we're gonna use fading colors.

Fading colors are two colors combined and fade to each other:

"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." - John M. Ford

Tags used:

-->[c=#CC0000-#336699]"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." - John M. Ford[/c]-->

Mark the stripe between the two color codes, this combines the two colors together, and makes them fade. Now some people have fading-fading (also known as double-fading) colors in the same sentence. "How the heck do they make such sigs?" you ask. Well, it's very easy to do. You have to use the same fading method, but you have to change the color codes.

"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." - John M. Ford

Tags used:
-->[c=#CC0000-#996600][/c]"We're not lost. We're locatio[c=#996600-#CC0000]nally challenged." - John M. Ford[/c]-->

Here's how it looks when using the fading colors:

"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." - John M. Ford

The colors tags are right next to each other, using the same colors. That way, you have the fading-fading effect.

Image/Picture signatures

HG does not allow image signatures.

Here are some patterns you can use as well:

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And some weird or unusual signs/characters:

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� I j � J k |{ | < K l � � L m (v) M n � � N o � � � � � � () O p � � P q � Q r � R s � $ S t ~|~ �|� T u � � � � �
|_| � � � � U v V w W x � y � Y z Z � � � � � � � ? � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � ○ √ ∙� ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ ♪ ♫ �
% * & ^ # @ ! � �

All allowed UBBCodes in Signatures:

Color Text:
Add some color the text.
Tags used:-->[c=#xxxxxx][/c]--> (where xxxxxx stands for the 6 digit hexadecimal/color code from the color table, however you can also use terms as "red" or "blue" etc. Scroll down to the color table chart for info about Hexadecimal, in case you don't know.)
-->[color=#xxxxxx][/color]-->
Input:--> [c=#00008b]The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.[/c]-->
Effect: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Bold Text:
Makes the text bold.
Tags used: -->[b][/b]-->
Input: -->[b]The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.[/b]-->
Effect: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Italic Text:
Italize the text.
Tags used:-->[i][/i]-->
Input: -->[i]The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.[/i]-->
Effect: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Underline Text:
Gives the text an underline.
Tags used: -->[u][/u]-->
Input: -->[u]The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.[/u]-->
Effect: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Whisper Text:
Makes the text small and in whispering format.
Tags used: -->[whisper][/whisper]-->
Input: -->[whisper]The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.[/whisper]-->
Effect: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Strike-out Text:
Gives the text a strike-out.
Tags used: -->[s][/s]-->
Input: -->[s]The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.[/s]-->
Effect: ~~The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.~~

Center Text:
Center align the text
Tags used: -->[center][/center]-->
Input: -->[center]The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.[/center]-->
Effect:

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Subscript Text:
Subscript.
Tags used: -->[sub][/sub]-->
Input: -->The [sub]quick[/sub] brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.-->
Effect: The _quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Superscript Text:
Superscript.
Tags used: -->[sup][/sup]-->
Input: -->The [sup]quick[/sup] brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.-->
Effect: The ^quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Indent Text:
Indents the text.
Tags used: -->[ind][/ind]-->
Input: -->[ind]The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.[/ind]-->
Effect:

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

E-mail Link:
Makes a clickable link (mailto) to your e-mail adress.
Tags used: -->[email][/email]-->
Input: -->[email]monkey@example.com[/email]-->
Effect: monkey@example.com

Hypertext Link:
Makes a clickable link out of your text.
Tags used: -->[url=][/url]-->
Imput: -->[url=http://example.com]My Website[/url]-->
Effect: My Website

Bullet:
Use bullets for making a good viewable list.
Tags used: -->[*]-->
Input: -->[*]Monkey 1
[*]Monkey 2-->
Effect:

Monkey 1

Monkey 2

List:
Use numbers for making a good viewable list.
Tags used: -->[ol][/ol]-->
Input: -->[ol]Monkey 1[/ol]
[ol]Monkey 2[/ol]-->
Effect:

Monkey 1

Monkey 2

Smily-Codes:

Don't overuse them, this takes up mutch bandwith and loading time. Also, since the ubboff and ubbon commands don't work on smileys, they are depicted with a space in between. Don't include the space when using smileys.

: ) =
: ( =
: D =
: p =
: o =
; ) =
: { =
: angry: =

Emoticons:

* kiss* =
* barf* =
* happy* =
* mischief* =
* rude* =
* surprised* =
* wink* =
* redfaced* =
* yawn* =

The color chart/table:

HG's color table: http://www.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=25,319058,,20

Or you can use this one as well:

Hexadecimals by Guzzardo23:
The hex codes work in hexadecimal code. The digits are: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E and F.
You are given six spaces to put the digits, for RGB (Red, Green and Blue). So two sapces for each color. The max 'number' you can put for a color is FF, what is, in decimal mode, 255. So 0000FF gives you pure blue, FFFF00 Gives you yellow, and so on.

000000 gives you black because there is no color, and FFFFFF gives you white because all the colors are at their max. 151515, C9C9C9, and other codes where the same two-digits number repeat three times give you different tones of grey.

Also a very nifty program is Eyedropper, which automically gives the Hexadecimal/Color code with a mouse over. Foexample, if you go over the HG logo with your mouse it would give you blue and yellow color codes. The program can be download here.

RGB Color system by Ticaios:There are six characters in a color. The first two are for red, the second two are for green and the last two are for blue. Red-Green-Blue=RGB.

Each color (R, G and B) has a value. The value is not written using decimal system. In decimal system the base number is 10 (eg. 10*10=100). In RGB code the base number is 16 (2⁴=16. A power of two is logical because of using binary system.), hence we need something to represent numbers 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15.

This is where the letters come in:

0=0
1=1
2=2
3=3
4=4
5=5
6=6
7=7
8=8
9=9
a=10
b=11
c=12
d=13
e=14
f=15

Some examples:
00 = 0
01 = 1
0f = 15
10 = 16
ab = 171
ff = 255

Each color gets a value between 0 and 255, hence each color has 256 different values. Three colors can each have 256 different values, so the total amount of combinations is 256³=167.777.216.

If you use the RGB code, browsers round the color to the nearest supported color. That's why numbers work better than words.

Always remember to add "#" before the color code

Another set of examples:
#000000 = Black (Value of every color is 0)
#ff0000 = Red (Value of red is 255, while green and blue are at 0)
#aa0000 = Darker red (R=170,G=0,B=0)
#ffffff = White (All values are at maximum. White is the sum of all colors. (I'm talking about light, since the computer screen generates light with different colors.))

Go here to see some examples of RGB color codes.

Some tips:

1. Italizing quotes looks better
2. Don't use too bright colors such as yellow, as they may not display correctly on light-themed forums such as AoMH.
3. Don't make your signature too long, as it may screw up the page with a nasty horizontal scrollbar for example and it generally looks ugly.
4. The codes -->[ubboff]and-->[ubbon] will disable and enable BBCodes respectively. It does not work on smileys.

You can use whatever you want. Keep practicing until you like your sig.

There's also a way to create "image" signatures. It involves turning off the text signature that comes with HG. After that, crop the signature "bar" with an image program. Simply paste the bar with your desire image from a picture hosting site such as imageshack or photobucket. However, this is frown upon by the community and is not recommended.

Read the HG forum FAQ for more info, and you can find all UBB codes there.

Here are some helpfull links too:

http://www.geocities.com/thapoofta/javafade/
http://www.quotationspage.com
http://www.quoteland.com

Final note:
Don't use anything that is against the CoC in your signature or you risk getting banned.

Thank you for your time.

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[This message has been edited by Shala (edited 04-28-2007 @ 06:14 AM).]