Offer your services

[TheDude]

You could always have tooltips for each image:
<img src="buttons/coder.gif" alt="I can help with CODING">

Or even do it properly and put:

<img src="buttons/coder.gif" title="I can help with CODING">

or even both:
<img src="buttons/coder.gif" alt="I can help with CODING"  title="I can help with CODING">

except, we use BBCode on the forums, so it would probably require  CJ to hack around with the YabbSE setup to get that working, as BBCode doesn't have alt or title tags for images AFAIK

I forget that IE is bad and makes alt attributes a tooltip when it shouldn't, oops! But all images should have an alt tag even if it's alt="".

I believe sig length is rather limited; if you wanted to display two or three icons with tooltips and alt-texts, I doubt it would fit.

There may be some sort of mod/hack for YaBB that does the same sort of thing, so chris could just edit it slightly.

[SSH]

Maybe CJ could hack the board code so that [help=code][help=story] or similar could be used?

[DragonRose]

Or you could make all your icons into one image, then label it with text. See below.

[Damien]

But, what's the point of having images then? You could just use text.

[Scummbuddy]

I feel the tooltips are a must, and I believe having them under our avatar and personal text was the original idea, and one i like.

[m0ds]

Or you could of course just do what we did before. That is, offer your services in the thread - explaining what you can offer etc and put the symbols up.

Or you can just have a sensible sized signiature and display the icons you desire.

[Scummbuddy]

Tutoring
Playtesting
Speech Recording
Music
Background Art
Character Art
Character Animation
Proof Reading
Coding/Scripting
Design/Story

Okay, so it seems people have started to add these to their signitures, but where is the safe place that is hosting these? I saw barnettcollege, but are we allowed to direct link from there? Shall we wait for CJ to see about uploading these, or should we use Neoles services?

[m0ds]

CJ once stated that he had an idea to include the options of selecting whichever services you had to offer from your profile, which I still think is a super idea.

It seems people are using their own web-servers to host their personal selection of icons (because there is not enough sig space to link several induvidual icons). But, you're more than welcome to link from the Barnett College images.

[Pumaman]

Aye, I've been meaning to add this to profiles for ages, just never quite got round to it. I'm not going to hack it into the forum right now because I'm planning on upgrading the forum software soon, so I'd have to do the hack again.

So until then, using signatures sounds like a good idea.

Great work eric, I'd be happy to host the images on agsforums if we need a constant place to link them from.

[Migs]

One more icon/service would be useful: Translator.  The person could specify what languages they know in their signature, or in the sticky thread at the top.

EDIT: Also, in my signature, you'll notice that if you click on the icons it takes you directly to my post in the sticky thread for more details.