Signature & Ticker guidelines

[BellyBelly]

Dear members,

We'd just like to point out our guidelines on signatures for use in the forums, to clarify what is and what isn't acceptable.

This is to ensure that the forums appear tidy and somewhat professional at all times, rather than overdone or messy with cartoons and images, which also slows the loading time for pages for our members, particularly those with slower internet.

Tickers

- You are allowed only 1 ticker. You will be asked to remove extra tickers.
- Your ticker may represent any event in your life. Examples include pregnancy, baby birthday, conception, weight loss, or countdown to an event such as a wedding, christening or Christmas.
- Your ticker may contain an image, provided that the image is part of the ticker, and not separate to the ticker.
On this point, our forum supports a large number of members who have sadly lost babies. We are happy for your to include a link to your passed babies website - however due to the level of confrontation in seeing images of passed babies we ask that images of your angel be kept from your ticker as it may be upsetting for some members.
- Tickers must not be higher than 120 pixels high or 550 pixels in length. You can usually find out the ticker size by right clicking the ticker and looking in 'properties'.

Does your ticker link to another site?
Many tickers link to other ticker sites, some commercial. Given that we cannot constantly monitor the content on these sites, we ask that you remove the link in the BB code the site gives you.
You can tell if a link is embedded in your ticker by clicking on the ticker, or if you hover your cursor over it, the icon may change to the 'action' icon.
You can remove the link by removing all text which is not between the [IMG] and [/IMG] tags. The text to be removed will start with and there will be a tag at the end.
For example: When you look at the code for your ticker you will see something like the text below (without the spaces):

[ur l=ht tp:/ /newborn-baby-gifts. com] [img]http:/ /babyage.t ickershack. com/tickers/m r8r97skck c1ka1h.png[/img][/url]

You need to remove everything that is outside of the [img] section - so in the above example, the [ur l=ht tp:/ /newborn-baby-gifts. com] and the [/url] have to be removed.

Text in Signatures

- With a ticker, you are allowed a maximum of 4 lines of text and 2 spacer lines.
- Without a ticker, you are allowed a maximum of 6 lines of text and 2 spacer lines.
- Members are allowed one extra line of text to advertise a BellyBelly meetup (this can include a link to a thread about the event).
- Market Place Members are allowed one extra line of text, and have a character limit.

- Text size must be no larger than size #4.
- You are allowed BellyBelly emoticons in your signature.

Links in Signatures

- You are not allowed commercial links in your signature. This privilege is reserved for Market Place Members only.
- You may have other links in accordance with the BellyBelly guidelines such as personal blogs, photo websites, or fertility charts.


- Please have signatures aligned to the left, with your signature on a separate line to any text.

- If you are currently finding signatures or avatars upsetting, you can turn off your ability to see all signatures or avatars:
Go to your Settings (located in the top right corner of the screen between My Profile and Log Out)
In the left hand column (under 'My Account', then 'My Settings') click on General Settings
From here under Thread Display Options you can turn off your ability to see Signatures and/or Avatars


Thankyou for your understanding and if you have any questions about your signature, please let the moderating team know.