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Started by Hiatus February 9th, 2013 7:15 PM
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Meganium

memento mori

she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
^CHECK YOUR PM's.

Signature inspirations are awesome. I remember when I was new, I wanted to have a signature just like many of the mods here, but I was shy to ask them to make me one. So I decided to teach myself how. It took me a good few months to actually make one, and then I moved on to making a few for others. What really helped me was that I had already taken a couple web design class involving CSS. :D

Hiatus

Seen 1 Day Ago
Posted July 24th, 2021
12,283 posts
10.8 Years
Usually, I try keeping my signature minimal and simple. People tend to put images in there, animations, embed songs, and various other things, but personally, I find those kind of things to get in my way at times, which, for me, could be sort of annoying, so I try avoiding them at all cost.

Most of the time, I usually have some quote in my signature, relating to whatever avatar I happen to be using, as well as links to few of my important threads and whatnot. Might try something different one day, but I'm not completely sure on it, sadly. If I do, although it's fun, it would surely take a long time to make, considering how long it takes to write CSS for even a couple of text lines. Another thing that you have to be concerned about is scroll-bars; these things might not appear in your end, but if you did something wrong, they would be shown in others' computers, all depending on whatever browser they're using. Sometimes, it could be frustrating, haha.

Altairis

take me ☆ take you

Female
database database
Seen December 29th, 2022
Posted October 5th, 2018
5,170 posts
10.9 Years
Mine always have the same format, which is a centered gif with several links underneath it. I'm pretty boring and haven't been tired of this yet, and I'm pretty sure almost all of my signatures have looked like this. Oops, maybe I should spice up the format whenever I decide to change again.

ORAS/XYBW

moon

they/them
Seen 15 Hours Ago
Posted 1 Day Ago
37,443 posts
15.5 Years
I enjoy text sigs the most. Sometimes flashy images are cool but most often icon sigs are better, sort of like Sora usually has three Ash-icons in her signature. But best are text-only ones imo. I usually list my forums and pair and possibly events or quotes or links to my clubs or RPs. Both to advertise and to provide easy access to interesting threads for myself, haha.
paired with Ivysaur

Sonata

Don't let me disappear

Age 27
Male
Indiana
Seen 52 Minutes Ago
Posted March 25th, 2023
13,619 posts
10.2 Years
I just find a picture of whatever the latest "interesting" anime I've watched is and slap it into some code that I was given and then throw a couple links on it. I've come a long way in a couple months, my first signature was a bunch of crappy banners stacked together. I wish I could do a lot more intricate things, but too lazy and don't have all the stuff figured and too lazy to figure it out too.

Hikamaru

Age 30
Female
Australia
Seen January 24th, 2019
Posted September 4th, 2018
50,214 posts
12.2 Years
I usually tend to stick to a simple pic (usually a gif related to what's in my avatar, right now I have Dory from Finding Nemo) with text underneath which is just my pairs and links to the battle server and my Tumblr page given there's not much stuff I have on PC that's worth dedicating a signature link to.

There were times in 2013 where I did use CSS signatures for a bit, but they just had a pic taking up most of the signature and links were on a black bar at the bottom. I remember when I had one of these CSS signatures that got quite a lot of love (I had a theme based on the Russian-born EDM producer Zedd at the time, and the pic in the signature was a pretty beautiful collage of him) but after some time, I felt like I couldn't stick to CSS because it wasn't "me".

And all the way back in 2012 prior to my supportership my signatures looked pretty damn terrible, thank god I improved so heavily on those disasters, although there was one theme I had that did make people laugh a lot back then.
Gone forever for personal reasons.
Visit my Tumblr page if you wish to contact me.

http://daikenkki.tumblr.com/

Meganium

memento mori

she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
Do you guys save your signatures somewhere (like a blog, word doc, PC notepad, etc)?

Hikamaru

Age 30
Female
Australia
Seen January 24th, 2019
Posted September 4th, 2018
50,214 posts
12.2 Years
Do you guys save your signatures somewhere (like a blog, word doc, PC notepad, etc)?
I saved my aforementioned CSS coding in the PC notepad but I think I saved it in a Word document as well. I may actually do signature drop posts to make some use of my inactive blog.
Gone forever for personal reasons.
Visit my Tumblr page if you wish to contact me.

http://daikenkki.tumblr.com/

Salzorrah

grassium Z

Age 25
Female
Floaroma Town, Sinnoh
Seen May 14th, 2022
Posted May 5th, 2022
6,376 posts
12.4 Years
Ahhhh, I do a lot of hard work at most of my sigs. I use CSS a lot, and I always find a way to reinvent it. Right now, I'm stumped, so I'm just reusing the CSS style, with different elements, When I am bored making sigs, I stick with simple text sigs... But I also find a way to make it a tad bit grander lol...

Also, I'm pretty sure that my blog is a big sig dump. I made about 30+ sigs in this account, and possibly another 10-20 sigs in my old account :P
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Eurovision Event 2021

Meganium

memento mori

she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
Hah, I used to save all my coding in the notepad, then I realized that I was RUNNING OUT OF SPACE. I was already using up all of the space provided, so I had not much to do but to move my signatures to a giant blog entry and dump them there. Nowadays when I finish a signature, I just edit the blog entry and throw it there, because sometimes when I feel like it, I'll probably reuse either the coding or the whole signature itself.

Lusus

Age 23
Non-binary
Ljubljana
Seen April 18th, 2018
Posted February 17th, 2018
1,405 posts
10.3 Years
I don't save it anywhere, if i don't save the sig i just redo what i was gonna do the next time, probably because all my signatures weren't complex at all and because when i edit my sig i usually don't have anything to do anyway. I do have the current one stored in a PM, but mainly because Cadance was nice and added something that made my sig look nicer.

Hiatus

Seen 1 Day Ago
Posted July 24th, 2021
12,283 posts
10.8 Years
I used to save my signatures in Notepad ages ago, while I was member of another forum, but these days, not anymore, unfortunately. My signatures are simplistic, usually, so they don't need to be saved; I try keeping all my codes right in my mind. They might not look exactly the same as previous ones every time I create something new, but they still do resemble, so that's great.

If it's a thread layout, though, then yes, I do save. In most cases, they're much larger and more time-consuming to make, so getting rid of them completely after each use doesn't seem like such a good idea to me (and same goes for profile designs). Wish there was an easier way to get around these things, even though I'm pretty satisfied with my current method.

Meganium

memento mori

she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
I think I still have a few thread layouts saved in mine, but I haven't gotten rid of them because I won't be using them again. I come up with new ones instead.

Meganium

memento mori

she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
^haha I agree.

Here's another question I got: Are you more of a "thread" maker or a "post" maker? In other words: do you prefer making threads or do you prefer to post more?

Sheep

She/Her
Australia
Seen 3 Hours Ago
Posted 3 Hours Ago
39,245 posts
16.6 Years
Are you more of a "thread" maker or a "post" maker? In other words: do you prefer making threads or do you prefer to post more?

Pretty much what Murkrow said. I.. probably make more threads in the higher staff forum than anywhere else. Posting is a lot more fun. 8D;

Sonata

Don't let me disappear

Age 27
Male
Indiana
Seen 52 Minutes Ago
Posted March 25th, 2023
13,619 posts
10.2 Years
I prefer to just post because I'm not all that great at making threads and even if I make a creative thread (what I think is creative) it doesn't really get many replies.

Hiatus

Seen 1 Day Ago
Posted July 24th, 2021
12,283 posts
10.8 Years
Are you more of a "thread" maker or a "post" maker? In other words: do you prefer making threads or do you prefer to post more?
I rarely get ideas for threads unless I take time thinking, which, from every once in a while, could be sort of a time-consuming task. Due to that, I personally prefer posting. If I ever do wind up with any topic idea, there already seems to be a thread on it, in most cases, which prevents me from doing it even further. I really wish it were easier, haha.

Salzorrah

grassium Z

Age 25
Female
Floaroma Town, Sinnoh
Seen May 14th, 2022
Posted May 5th, 2022
6,376 posts
12.4 Years
Are you more of a "thread" maker or a "post" maker? In other words: do you prefer making threads or do you prefer to post more?

My threads are mostly ORAS related, clubs, or any other thread I don't really care lmao.

I find posting fun but making threads is awesome too, since some of it are about making a ton of CSS for it :3
Flying the flag for Ireland in the 2021 PokéCommunity Eurovision Event!


Eurovision Event 2021

Meganium

memento mori

she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
I'm not much of a thread-making person myself. When I feel like making threads, I make sure that idea wasn't taken already, so I use the search feature to check if the idea wasn't made already. Clubs and roleplays are easier to make for me, because they are based on pre-made ideas that I had done for a while now. xD

I used to go crazy with thread making when I was a mod for the first time. I think the majority of the threads I've done are staff-exclusive. It was actually fun, by personal experience!

My post count can obviously tell that I like to post more. xD

Hiatus

Seen 1 Day Ago
Posted July 24th, 2021
12,283 posts
10.8 Years
Most threads I've ever posted in any section has got to be Video Games. New threads would rarely get posted in that board, so I thought I'd help creating some. Eventually, it started to drop, as others would start doing the same and I'd run out of ideas, and now, I rarely get to do it. It is indeed a fun process, even though it could be tough at times, as I've said in my previous post!

Second section is probably X and Y, with third being Pokémon Gaming Central.

Meganium

memento mori

she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
General Chat and T&I are probably my top sections in terms of thread making. Especially T&I concerning the fact that I'm a techie and I like to discuss anything technology. If I come around with an interesting idea for a thread, I'll go ahead and post it.

FC&G requires ideas to see if it's good enough for a club. in TWL...you don't make threads. :P

Do you guys access PC in other devices like iPad/tablet or mobile phone?