Chris is one cool dude, isn't he?
I had lots of fun on April Fool's Day. I guess the joke was on Chris, missing out.
Loved the banner, too.
The irony... she burns!
I loved the steampunk avatars, and copied a bunch of them to my computer. I have ... oh my, 90 of them in a folder that's 1.4 megabytes. Ouch.
Do you think you can use them? They are identified as avatars with numbers, but not the people whose avatars they are.
How do you use Photobucket or Flickr? Do you need an account? I assume what clockwork was saying is don't just post a link to the images, as per normal in signatures.
Not that I'd post 90 images anyway.
They are so gorgeous. People really got into the steampunk theme.
1.4MB is actually amazingly small for 90 avatars! By comparison, the Steampunk'd banner (uncompressed) was about 2.97MB, and under 300KB as a JPEG. It was made up of 516 different files totaling 313MB. And the animated version of the Steampunk'd banner was made up of 2,802 files totaling 6.36GB!
But you could send me the avatars if you like, I might be able to put something together and post it here for posterity. They'd need to be put into one file like a zip or a rar file otherwise you'd have to attach 90 separate files to an email. Send them to skycoda [at] gmail [dot] com if you like.
As for Flickr/Photobucket, it's mostly to do with bandwidth and netiquette. If you hotlink to an image (the image appears on this site but is actually being fed from its original site) then the other site owner uses up his/her bandwidth every time the image is displayed here, which, with the number of members we have, can be the equivalent of a bandwidth black hole. By hotlinking you also have no control over that image. It could be removed or changed. But if you download the image from the site and then upload it to a Flickr or Photobucket account, then it's those guys using their bandwidth instead, which is fine because that's what those sites are for.
They're simple enough to use. You can sign into Flickr with a pre-existing Yahoo! or Google account, I believe.
Alessandra Kelley said:
May I suggest that be called "Rule 3 + 4i":
If it exists, there IS a steampunk version of it.
Good one! I believe there's a similar rule about porn but we won't go there...