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Poll

Should i increase the size of allowed avatars to 130x65

no
18 (85.7%)
yes
2 (9.5%)
increase it to 640x480, i love avatars
1 (4.8%)

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Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« on: March 27, 2005, 11:21 AM »
should i increase avatar max size?
i was considering 130x65 instead of 65x65..
any other web site / forum design suggestions welcome

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2005, 11:33 AM »
I kind of like the small, unobtrusive avatars here. Perhaps 80x80 to make the images clearer, but 135 sounds a bit large to me :up:.

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2005, 12:28 PM »
Well, I'm used to the 105x150 avatars used in another forum, but the layout is much larger over there and can handle that size.  You couldn't go much bigger than what you have now without stretching the tables.  If you were going to go larger, I would suggest portrait-style dimensions, e.g. 65x130.  That'd work better for me anyway.
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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2005, 07:12 PM »
65 x 65 looks right for the rest of the page's format. I'd keep it as is.

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2005, 09:27 PM »
What you have going now looks pretty good to me.  I'd leave it for now.

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2005, 05:25 PM »
Seems fine now, maybe a tiny larger (as suggested 80x80)

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2005, 06:29 AM »
It is the text that is the important part of this forum.
Please dont make this into a gif-war with a Fare-feel to it :)

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #7 on: April 16, 2005, 07:13 AM »
this question i think is settles.  avatars will stay as they are.

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2005, 07:03 PM »
I like smaller avatars/graphics on a forum were words are the main communication.

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2005, 01:31 AM »
Avatars are actually useful and handy, because they make it much easier to tell, even with peripheral vision, whose post you're looking at.  But they don't need to be anywhere near 130x65 to be effective to that end.  I run 1920x1200 resolution, and the current size is perfectly adequate for me.  I don't like obnoxious graphics distracting me.
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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2005, 08:53 AM »
The only thing I would increase is the text size of buttons, these tired old eyes[my prob, I know, LOL] have a little prob discerning what they say,so a slight increase would be helpful :)
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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2005, 09:03 AM »
i agree with you randiroo - i will look for a bigger button set - i have trouble identifying the buttons as well.

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2005, 09:34 AM »
For me, the buttons are somewhat hard to read as well, mostly because of the poor contrast of white text on medium-blue backgrounds.
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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2005, 09:39 AM »
yeah, they are very elegant looking buttons imho, but the color scheme and size makes them very dificult to read.

btw the forum here is from www.simplemachines.org

extra button sets can be found here: http://www.simplemac...index.php?board=34.0

if anyone finds a button set that they like post me a link.

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2005, 09:45 AM »
I just took 2 buttons and adjusted them slightly, what do you think? #1 or #2

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« Last Edit: April 18, 2005, 10:07 AM by randiroo76073 »

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #15 on: April 18, 2005, 11:32 AM »
definitely much more readable.
id say the bigger one is better, though wide buttons might be problematic for some browsers if there are too many of them on one row.
did you just enlarge the images? seems like the text looks too good for that..

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #16 on: April 18, 2005, 11:50 AM »
Mouser, I used Irfanview, went to: "Image/Resize Resample" & increased the heigth by 4 pixels in #1, 2 more pixels in #2, left width at original setting, hope that helps  :) You should be able to batch resize all buttons w/ your image editor and then replace them in your forum layout prgm.
PS: don't get me to lyin as I'm not familiar w/ website layout at all LOL
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« Last Edit: April 18, 2005, 11:56 AM by randiroo76073 »

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #17 on: April 18, 2005, 11:53 AM »
thats not a bad idea at all, and it would be easy to do.
i'm going to try that and also look at some alternate button sets on the simplemachines site and see what's best/
need to do some other things first though.. so much to do so little time.

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2005, 12:00 PM »
HA HA HA, got to sign off too, it's spring & my wifes calling me outside to help w/ planting & other such :o :)
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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #19 on: April 20, 2005, 06:03 AM »
Mouser, I'm working on simple web pg & noticed that if I increase button height I have to reduce cell padding to keep overall cell heigth same, just a fyi :) This HTML stuff is givin me a headache LOL
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« Last Edit: April 20, 2005, 06:10 AM by randiroo76073 »

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #20 on: February 05, 2006, 07:45 AM »
They look fine to me...You don't really want to make them any bigger...
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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2006, 02:48 AM »
I would like to see is 80x80 or 100x100 with auto resizing  :D
« Last Edit: February 12, 2006, 02:53 AM by scorp »

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #22 on: February 13, 2006, 06:50 AM »
I voted no, but I'm starting to think 400x600 would be good, we could see details on those pictures much, much better. :D

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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #23 on: February 19, 2006, 11:40 PM »
I fit just fine......bigger avatar = more scrolling
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Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« Reply #24 on: February 19, 2006, 11:44 PM »
VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION AVATAR
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