CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

What's the difference between a Wallpaper and a Sig and a Banner?
Also how do I go about adding them so that my posts don't look so
dull?

they are all different sizes

a wallpaper is meant to be your desktop background
a sig is a picture of reasonable size that you can add to yourself through the controlpanel
and a banner is something like an ad on a site

pretty much...

But what you REALLY need, is an avatar. That's the little picture under your user name.

*SIGH* I know that.
What I'm looking for is a free Dual! avatar somewhere.What I love to get is either
Mitsuki Sanada or Mitsuki Rara or D.If I had used my username from the Anime
Cafe I guess I wouldn't have this problem.

i think i can find one for you

here ya go

A wallpaper is the picture you put on your computer's desktop. It would have a resolution of 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, or 1600x1200.

A banner is a web-standard image size designed for advertising, 468x60. It can also refer to banner variants like the half-banner (234x60) and, somewhat less commonly, the vertical banner (120x240).

A sig is a block appended to your posts, and helps to distinquish you from other posters. Some (many) people include graphical images, often displaying their username, but others (again, many) prefer text sigs. A sig image is an image designed for such use.


Don't go around putting wallpapers in your posts unless you're posting in the wallpapers part of the site. Elsewhere, it would just hog bandwidth.

To add a sig, click on "user cp" and then "edit signature". this will bring you to a section where you can (no surprise here) edit your signature. If you make or obtain a sig image, you will need to find a host for it before you can put it up. I can host sig images or suggest a good free host if you'd like. The way you put it in is by using img tags like linking to any image on these boards - standard vBcode.

Of course, you have to keep things reasonable - no 15MB animated gifs or 700 images, we don't want to kill users on 56k dialup. I favour the use of either A: up to six lines of text OR B: one image of up to 500x200 (actually, I think this was the site that said up to 470, so 470x200). (sliced images count as one if they display as one.)

glitch1501 wrote:i think i can find one for you

here ya go

Yeah,the first is what I am looking for.Now the question is does anyone know how I go about it getting it put on?

I do indeed. Right click on the avatar you like and save it to your computer. Once you've save it, scroll upto the top of the page and hit "user cp" (it's right under the little anime angels button). Once you're in the "user cp", click on the edit signature link. That should take you to a page where you can upload an avatar from your computer. Upload it, save and you should do it!

I tried but found out that there's a section for adding avatars there.So I suppose that's where one is supposed to go to add the avatars?
The whole process makes me a bit confused really.But I will attempt it again.
If I can't get it right you'll hear me scream!

glitch1501 wrote:i think i can find one for you

here ya go

I think I'm gonna need help setting the avatar up.

Do you know how to save the avatar (you do it like you would save any other picture.)

Do that much, and then we'll work from there, k?

Ok,but I do seem to have problems with trying to get these things going.I also had to have help with my avvie at the Anime Cafe Forum.Either it shows how still
computer illiterate I am or else I am totally useless when it comes to these things.

I'm not sure.. but I think this might help you~

http://www.christiananime.net/showpost.php?p=317134&postcount=4

Mangafanatic wrote:Do you know how to save the avatar (you do it like you would save any other picture.)

Do that much, and then we'll work from there, k?

Yes,I have it saved.

Mangafanatic wrote:Do you know how to save the avatar (you do it like you would save any other picture.)

Do that much, and then we'll work from there, k?

I don't have a file name for it it's saved under File 1.
I must admit this is a bit harder than when I was setting up my avatar
at the Anime Cafe Forum.
What do we do now?

the first one is 2 big, its 100x67 pixles, that is the link thing, could you possibly shrink it glitch?

That's what I just asked after I tried to set it up.Is the second one small enough?
If we can't shrink the first one,and does anyone know how or if that's possible,
I will have to go with the second one.
Which is ok by me,I like D today.

I already fixed it for you. Check-y your PM, if you would.

Thanks I already did.

Ok,I don't usually do this but I just want to say that the avatar is finally up!

I would like to thank all of you for the help you gave me with setting up the
avatar.I don't think I could have done it without help,especially for Osaka's
patient guidance.
Whenever I decide(and if ever)to get a sig I know who to ask for help now!