Guild Character Limit
Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:05 pm
ERROR : There were some errors:
Your welcome message cannot be longer than 5000 characters. You have used 5458 characters.
Has anyone else had problems with the guild character limit? If so, how have they overcome it? I've tried to make my code as efficient as possible but it probably still needs around 6000 characters.
Any suggestions or advice would be gratefully appreciated.
Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:28 pm
I don't believe there is any way to just avoid the character limit but here are some suggestions I've always used when making guild layouts:
I find using css that has been tested and works in both IE and Firefox is better than using font, colour, size, etc codes everytime you start a new paragraph.
If you have images try to make their URLs as short as possible, call the images, 1, 2, 3 and so on and if possible get the username that you're using for the server you keep them on as short as possible too.
Something I've noticed and something you should maybe consider is that if you've pasted the code in from elsewhere (Notepad, Word, etc) sometimes there are big white spaces between coding and if you backspace through all the white space you find that on occassion that could have been taking up a great number of characters.
I personally, have never liked the idea of a blog for Council Members on the guild front, it takes up room and very rarely is anything important or of interest said - its a waste! I'd recommend sticking to just a few updates on the guild front and maybe the odd link.
Also, with respect to your css say for example you have:
It is possible to cut-down the script where the various elements have the same attributes, in this case table, td, font, p and body can be grouped together as can A:LINK and A:VISITED, like so:
That come sometimes help to cut a lot of the character count down as you can see.
Hope that helps in some way or another, good luck
I find using css that has been tested and works in both IE and Firefox is better than using font, colour, size, etc codes everytime you start a new paragraph.
If you have images try to make their URLs as short as possible, call the images, 1, 2, 3 and so on and if possible get the username that you're using for the server you keep them on as short as possible too.
Something I've noticed and something you should maybe consider is that if you've pasted the code in from elsewhere (Notepad, Word, etc) sometimes there are big white spaces between coding and if you backspace through all the white space you find that on occassion that could have been taking up a great number of characters.
I personally, have never liked the idea of a blog for Council Members on the guild front, it takes up room and very rarely is anything important or of interest said - its a waste! I'd recommend sticking to just a few updates on the guild front and maybe the odd link.
Also, with respect to your css say for example you have:
- Code:
table{font-family:tahoma;font-size:7.5pt;font-weight:normal;line-height:12pt;font-style:normal;color:black;}
td{font-family:tahoma;font-size:7.5pt;font-weight:normal;line-height:12pt;font-style:normal;color:black;}
font{font-family:tahoma;font-size:7.5pt;font-weight:normal;line-height:12pt;font-style:normal;color:black;}
p{font-family:tahoma;font-size:7.5pt;font-weight:normal;line-height:12pt;font-style:normal;color:black;}
body{font-family:tahoma;font-size:7.5pt;font-weight:normal;line-height:12pt;font-style:normal;color:black;}
b{color: ffffff;font-family:tahoma;}
A:LINK {color: ffffff;font-size:7.5pt; text-decoration:none;}
A:VISITED {color: ffffff;font-size:7.5pt; text-decoration:none;}
A:hover {COLOR:000000;FONT-FAMILY:veranda;}
</style>
It is possible to cut-down the script where the various elements have the same attributes, in this case table, td, font, p and body can be grouped together as can A:LINK and A:VISITED, like so:
- Code:
table, td, font, p, body{font-family:tahoma;font-size:7.5pt;font-weight:normal;line-height:12pt;font-style:normal;color:black;}
b{color: ffffff;font-family:tahoma;}
A:LINK, A:VISITED {color: ffffff;font-size:7.5pt; text-decoration:none;}
A:hover {COLOR:000000;FONT-FAMILY:veranda;}
</style>
That come sometimes help to cut a lot of the character count down as you can see.
Hope that helps in some way or another, good luck
Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:50 pm
Thank you! Will try that. I really appreciate your help.