What are userbars? Userbars are smallish icons (350x19), usually created with programs like Adobe Photoshop or Gimp, that many forum, email and social network (such as MySpace) users attach to their signature or website to express their personality and interests, much like a cellphone ringtone does in the real world. Userbars have become almost as common place as forum avatars and emoticons. There is a userbar for every conceivable subject from video games to music to tv shows and movies. Large collections of userbars can be found in the userbar archive and at popular userbar forums such as Userbars.com and Userbars.net. For example, lets say you are a tax attorney who drives a hybrid car, are a huge fan of the LOST tv series, enjoy music by Kiss and donate blood. You could attach all four of the userbars in the 'Before' box below to your signature.. OR (with UBAnimator) you could combine them all into one convenient animated userbar like one of the userbars in the 'After' box!

Why animate your userbars? Many userbar fans have very cluttered looking signatures due to the number of userbars that they would like to display. You could use the form below to easily consolidate your userbars into a single animated userbar like one of the userbars above. All userbars generated by the Userbar Animator are animated .GIF files, not Macromedia Flash animations, and should be viewable by just about anyone with a web browser, no plugin required.