1. How can I submit a userbar ?

2. How do I add a userbar to the quality userbars area ?

3. Which userbars are transferred to the quality area ?

4. What are the rules to upload a userbar ?

5. What are the userbar standards ?

6. Which userbars can I delete ?

7. I have voted for a userbar, but my vote was not casted !?

8. My uploaded userbar has disappeared !?

9. My userbar keywords or category is changed !?

10. How to request a userbar ?

11. I would like to have a userbar from this site in my signature, what do I have to do ?

12. Why can't I animate more than 5 userbars ?

13. My shoutbox message has disappeared !?

14. How can I change my username ?

15. Why do some userbars in the quality area don't have a link to their author ?

16. I found a userbar that is a creation of me, but it hasn't an author link !?

17. I want to exchange links with this site ?

18. Help, I have a question that isn't on this FAQ-list ?

1. How can I submit a userbar ?

Sign up and become a member. After you have clicked on the link in the confirmation e-mail, your account is active and you can login. To upload a userbar, just click on the link in the main menu and browse to the file on you computer. Click upload and your userbar will be added to the site and to your showroom instantly.

2. How do I add a userbar to the quality userbars area ?

You can't submit a userbar directly to the quality userbar area. Nice userbars, that are submitted to the member area, will be picked out by the admins and added to the quality area.

3. Which userbars are transferred to the quality area ?

First of all the userbar must be made in order with the userbar standards. If the image-quality is good, you have a good chance that your creation is placed in the qualty area. The transfer lies in the hands of the admins and moderators, and it depends on their decision. If a userbar gets transferred, it also stays in the member area.

4. What are the rules to upload a userbar ?

Anyone with a member account can upload as many userbars as he/she likes.
Just stick to the following rules when you upload a userbar:
- The userbar should have the dimension 350x19 (or 350x20).
- The image can't be larger than 150kb. (200kb for Video Userbars)
- The supported file-types are: JPG, GIF and PNG.
- The userbar should have a decent quality.
- The userbar must be made according to the userbar-standards.
- The userbar must be made by the member that uploads it.
- If you upload a animated userbar, it can't be a animation of different other userbars.
- You can only submit a userbar to the "Video Userbars Category" if it is made with a video file. (.AVI, .MOV etc)

5. What are the userbar standards ?

Userbars come in many varieties, but many userbars have the following characteristics:
- Approximately 350 pixels in width.
- Approximately 19 pixels in height.
- A semi-transparent half-ellipse covering the top half of the userbar.
- There are userbars with other kinds of decoration or with no decoration at all.
- Text using the 'Visitor TT2' font, at 13px aligned to the right and centered vertically.
- A diagonal stripe pattern (commonly called a 'scanline' pattern) of varying density.
- 1 pixel black border, sometimes called a stroke.
- Animations are allowed, but watch the file-size.
- PNG format for good quality, GIF for animations.

6. Which userbars can I delete ?

You can only delete userbars that are not contest entries or userbar battle entries. However you can delete only 5 quality userbars per day. We have set this limitation as a security measurement to protect your showroom. If someone else gets your login information they can't delete your whole showroom.

7. I have voted for a userbar, but my vote was not casted !?

Probably you have already voted for that userbar. You can only vote for a userbar once. You can also not vote for your own userbars.

8. My uploaded userbar has disappeared !?

The admins have the right to remove userbars that are not in order with the rules or not follow the userbar-standards. When that is the case you can't do anything about it, just try to make the userbar again and make it look better.

9. My userbar keywords or category is changed !?

In order to get good site search results, the keywords and categories of the submitted userbars shoud be well written and formed. The admins can change the keywords and the category of the userbar. Make it easy for the admins and choose good keywords and the right category.

10. How to request a userbar ?

Go to the forums and make a request in the relevent section. Make sure you follow the request rules specified in the forum, so that people understand how you would like you userbar.

11. I would like to have a userbar from this site in my signature, what do I have to do ?

You just have to download the userbar, and save it to your computer. Then choose a image host and upload it to the internet again. The image host will give you a URL which you can use in your forum signature. Some popular image hosts: Imageshack.us, Photobucket.com.

12. Why can't I animate more than 5 userbars ?

Animated userbars are saved in GIF format, with a maximum 256 different colors. They are created by piecing together separate userbar-frames and assigning delay times between the display of the different frames. In this manner, userbars can appear to be animated, or in a state of change. When you select many userbars, you also have many different colors (more than 256) expecially if you select userbars with a gradient. But the animated userbar can only have 256 colors so the other colors are replaced. In this way the quality of the animated userbars will decrease enormously. An other reason why 5 userbars is the maximum, is that the image size will increase rapidly when you animate more userbars. If you made a userbar that is bigger than 150kb it will load very slowly on forums and that is certainly not the intention.

13. My shoutbox message has disappeared !?

The shoutbox is there for a reason, don't misuse it. The admins have the right to remove shoutbox messages. Messages are removed if they are spam, advertisements or links to other websites. If you keep spamming the shoutbox, your account will be closed.

14. How can I change my username ?

You can't change your username by yourself. You have to contact the admins, and they will see if a username change is possible. Please mail your current and future username from your member-emailaddress to info@userbars.be.

15. Why do some userbars in the quality area don't have a link to their author ?

In the first version of the site you could upload userbars anonymously. Other userbars are submitted to our forum or collected from the internet by friends. These userbars were not removed when we launched the new site. If you find a userbar in our gallery that is your creation, you can claim it by sending an email with the userbar (image) and your username to the admins. Please send it from your member email address. The admins will change the author and add the userbar to your showroom.

16. I found a userbar that is a creation of me, but it hasn't an author link !?

If you find a anonymous userbar in our gallery that is your creation, you can claim it by sending an email with the userbar (image) and your username to the admins. Please send it from your member email address. The admins will change the author and add the userbar to your showroom.

17. I want to exchange links with this site ?

If you are the webmaster and you want to become a partner, you can send an email to the admins and they will review your request: info@userbars.be. Minimum link exchange requirements:
- At least 1.500 unique visitors a day
- At least 10.000 pageviews a day
- At least Google PageRank 3