Having problems editing my signature. Help!

[runningirl71]

Okay, when I first registered on this board, I had my signature such that I showed all curriculum I was using for each child. I then erased it all as we were transitioning through to a new school year. Today, I went in to edit my signature and add what curriculum we will be using this next year, and I got a message that said:

"Your signature can only be 1000 characters including BBcode markup." Huh?!

For one, I didn't come close to using 1000 characters. So, what is a BBcode? I noticed down below, when I was editing my siggy, all these codes that I'm either allowed or not allowed to have (at least there was either a yes or no written by them)

Do I have something in my profile settings that is interferring with me having a longer siggy line that I do right now? Believe me, it wasn't anything fancy or THAT long!

Please help! :confused:

[runningirl71]

Nobody can help me?? Could you lead me to where the answer might be on these boards??? :confused:

[elegantlion]

I got that when I tried to add links to all of my curricula. Maybe the little smileys take up room??? I know I eliminate linking a few of my items and it went through.

Helpful aren't I? I just kind of worked backward removing stuff until I got it go through.

[runningirl71]

Yes, I guess I should get rid of the smileys and see what happens. But, they are so cute! :) Thanks for the tip. I'll try it! :)

[PameliaSue]

The yes and no's you see at the bottom tell you what kinds of "codes" are allowed in a sig, not what you personally have set.

This forum is pretty restrictive when it comes to signatures: Only colored text and some links... other forums allow a lot more freedom for expression.

I'm not sure if they have done this to keep the forum more simple or to guard against inappropriate images.... Though if the later was the case they still allow image insert in the message part of the posts so if one wanted to post an inappropriate image they could.

Here is the sig I use on my other forums:

http://www.dailytruthwp.com/images/pamssig.jpg

[KAR120C]

I think each time you change the color or font you're adding code, and it could amount to quite a few characters for each one. Maybe 20-30?

Here's a wiki article on BBCode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode)that has some examples...

[runningirl71]

Okay,

so I was able to change it by taking out my smileys. But, it isn't so interesting to the eye! I might just put my smileys back in!:)