How to make a banner work?

[thewomenfolk]

Does anybody know how to make a banner work for your signature? I get an error message no matter what I try. Before my last banner up and disappeared I had a banner and a quote underneath the banner, and now 'it' won't let me put another banner up. Any help (baby steps) will be appreciated.

 

[ejoker]

try a different banner. the one you're using is from a site that potentially had some issues, and isn't being allowed here - at least for now.

 

[Shortstuff116]

If you click on my banner (for example) it will take you to the website where it is stored. You fill in the information about your vaping, etc., then select "make banner". Then copy the BB code they provide. Go to your signature edit box and insert that code, just make sure that you have at the end (again no spaces). Then click on preview signature to check it, then save it.

Hope that helps.

 

[thewomenfolk]

shortstuff, your banner is the one I tried. I put it in the url box and I get error messages of various kinds. I don't know why, but I remember having trouble getting my first banner to work also. Thanks for your info. I'll try again.

 

[Shortstuff116]

Hey thewomenfolk I think I may know why your banner will not work properly. When you go to your edit signature and paste the and the link ended by [/url, then select preview signature, look at the top of that page and you may see a warning message telling you that you have too many lines of information in your signature, that is what happened to me once before.

I would suggest that you delete that additional text ("Most people are bothered by those passages... etc.") and just try the banner link only and you should be all set. It's worth a try.

 

[Timtam]

smoke free quit meter.com/index.php/main/banner/56736.png is what's in your sig.

That banner is banned here. You need to use one like SS has, smokewithoutfire.co.uk.

Electronic Cigarette Savings Banner Tool - Smoke Without Fire

 

[thewomenfolk]

Thanks Shortstuff, I did what you said and removed the quote and it tells me it's an Invalid File.....


P.S. I just tried again and now it tells me I have 2 images and need to get rid of one. Does my Avatar count as one image? How come others can have an Avatar and a banner too but I can't. Waaaa......

 

[Timtam]

Try now...

 

[thewomenfolk]

This is just too funny. I think this site doesn't like us having banners. I just tried to click on ShortStuff's banner and nothing happens.

 

[Timtam]

Post up the link to your banner and I'll manually add it in for you.

 

[RippleInStillWater]

As you can see, it prints in the message below but for some reason I cannot make it part of my banner

here is the code:

[/URL]

and this is the entire code line from the generator.

I have tried all kinds of combinations of this to no avail and I am frustrated and its a cool generator so I'd like to use it

and the other one I tried a couple things but I couldn't tell what was what with this as follows:
<a href="sig.vapornine.com"><img src="customSig.php?id=790" width="400px"/></a>

and I think one is BB and one is html...


and in a separate letter....I was offered help:

No problem always glad to help. You need to go to USER CP and then click on Edit Signature. You then paste the following link into Option 1 http://sig.vapornine.com/customSig.php?id=790 and then click Save signature. You then need to click on "Insert Signature picture" and then on save signature again. You should be OK to go now

But I was not and thus my re-reply:

I tried that before and just tried it now and all I get is 'invalid file' every freaking time I try either save signature or even trying to 'upload' which I know isn't correct -- what really burns me up is that it appears in the message, good as gold, with a [/URL] after it -- wtf is going on? I truly am clueless when it comes to most computer .... so I have no idea why it doesn't work. Sigh......

 

[Timtam]

Consider it added!

 

[AngusATAT]

As you can see, it prints in the message below but for some reason I cannot make it part of my banner

here is the code:

[/URL]

and this is the entire code line from the generator.

The code is faulty. I explained why in your other thread.

I have tried all kinds of combinations of this to no avail and I am frustrated and its a cool generator so I'd like to use it.

Poof... I fixed it for you.

and the other one I tried a couple things but I couldn't tell what was what with this as follows:
<a href="sig.vapornine.com"><img src="customSig.php?id=790" width="400px"/></a>

That is HTML code, and won't work here.

and in a separate letter....I was offered help:

No problem always glad to help. You need to go to USER CP and then click on Edit Signature. You then paste the following link into Option 1 http://sig.vapornine.com/customSig.php?id=790 and then click Save signature. You then need to click on "Insert Signature picture" and then on save signature again. You should be OK to go now

I'm not sure why you were given these instructions, since your sig pic is actually just a link to another site, and not an image that you can upload. These stop smoking banners have to pull the data from the site that hosts them. It's exactly like linking to an image offsite (Photobucket, Imageshack, etc.), you don't upload the image here, you just point a link to it. So for these banners, it's just "forum code" text input into the same signature field that you put your other sig text in.

I tried that before and just tried it now and all I get is 'invalid file' every freaking time I try either save signature or even trying to 'upload' which I know isn't correct -- what really burns me up is that it appears in the message, good as gold, with a [/URL] after it -- wtf is going on? I truly am clueless when it comes to most computer .... so I have no idea why it doesn't work. Sigh......

As stated above, these generator sigs are not images that you upload, which is why it didn't work for you.

 

[lowboy]

trying to figure this signature thing out