Countdown ticker in signature

Hippychick

I have seen on some other forums they have the ability to add a countdown ticker in their signature which automatically counts down to a certain date.

They use VBulletin software. I can't work out if we can do this on MSE.

Could we maybe have something like this so all of us DFW's can count down to the day we should be DF. (As most of us snowball we should be able to work out the date)

Just an idea

Thanks

James240

Hippychick wrote: »

I have seen on some other forums they have the ability to add a countdown ticker in their signature which automatically counts down to a certain date.

They use VBulletin software. I can't work out if we can do this on MSE.

Could we maybe have something like this so all of us DFW's can count down to the day we should be DF. (As most of us snowball we should be able to work out the date)

Just an idea

Thanks

Liking that idea :T

pavlovs_dog

to be honest im not sure whether the powers that be would be for this, as there is already a problem with some peoples signatures being too big and taking up lots of room.

and on a technical side, i dont know if theyve used VB coding to prevent pictures being used in sigs, but ive never seen anyone on here with anything more advanced than a smilie in their sig. if that is the case, im not sure whether the coding would support it :think:

not a bad idea though :beer: its like counting down how many sleeps until a holiday

computerwoman

Hippychick wrote: »

I have seen on some other forums they have the ability to add a countdown ticker in their signature which automatically counts down to a certain date.

They use VBulletin software. I can't work out if we can do this on MSE.

Could we maybe have something like this so all of us DFW's can count down to the day we should be DF. (As most of us snowball we should be able to work out the date)

Just an idea

Thanks

ok call me dumb
but what does DFW stand for
thanks
cw

skylineboy2002

deby free wannabe i think - going by the name of the dedicated forum...

Hippychick

pavlovs_dog wrote: »

to be honest im not sure whether the powers that be would be for this, as there is already a problem with some peoples signatures being too big and taking up lots of room.

and on a technical side, i dont know if theyve used VB coding to prevent pictures being used in sigs, but ive never seen anyone on here with anything more advanced than a smilie in their sig. if that is the case, im not sure whether the coding would support it :think:

not a bad idea though :beer: its like counting down how many sleeps until a holiday

OK perhaps i'll just try to work it out manually in weeks rather than days, that way I won't have to change my sig each day

sra

The problem with images in signatures is that that I don't think there is any way to place restrictions on them.

With Vbulletin you can now let people upload images to the forum's server and restrict them in size
but with you're allowing people to hotlink to an image elsewhere (which is what a ticker is) then there's nothing stopping them putting postcard-sized images in their signature.

Bendybops19

That is a fab idea!!

There can just be a rule that no one can have pics in their sigs, just like we can have too many lines in our sig now