 CarnivourousDonut wrote: |
| This is going to sound like a stupid question, but how do I add the Light Armour GB icon to my sig? I looked in the FAQ, but it didn't help. |
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First, you have to save the badge onto your computer. Just right click on the badge, then save as, and put it somewhere on your computer that you'll be able to find it.
The next step is to find a photo hosting sight to upload the badge to. I use photobucket, but there are many other sites out there. If you want to use photobucket, go to to www.photobucket.com. If you don't currently have an account on there you'll have to create one, don't worry, the account is free.
Once you have your account set up, you'll need to upload the badge. On photobucket you you should see a section of the screen for uploading an image. Click on browse and it will prompt you for the location of your file on your PC. Navigate until you find the badge and click on the badge, then click open on the browse window. This will now upload the badge to photobucket.
Once it's been successfully uploaded to photobucket you'll want to copy the image link so you can post that in your signature line. Copy and paste the line that has the image tags in front of and at the end of the link (it will have IMG in brackets at each end of the link).
Go into your profile on FSM and paste the link where you want it in your signature line. What that does is display the photo from photobucket anytime anyone views your signature, which will show up in all of your posts.
The reason they do this is so that FSM doesn't have to store all the thousands of images from the badges on their servers, so im my case with over 800 posts, theoretically there would be over 800 copies of the same image file. As you can see, that would really use up a lot of server disk space.
Also, by hosting it yourself, you're not piggy backing on someone elses free photo hosting account which will count against their allotted bandwidth with the free accocunt.