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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 5:31 am
by Stevo
Hi Oscar or Brian,
I've tried to attach and Avatar image but it won't work, just keeps coming up page not available after upload. Any thoughts?
Regards,
Stevo

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:49 am
by Oscar
Hiya Stevo,

An avatar image's width can be no greater than 80 pixels, the height no greater than 80 pixels, and the file size no more than 6 KB. If you've taken care of that, then it should work fine, so I'm a bit puzzled.

:scratchhead:

Are you sure your avatar complied with the sizing restrictions?

Regards,
Oscar

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:46 am
by Kiwi Kev
Stevo
Below is the post Mike did back on April 16 2008, about avatar pictures. Hope you don't mind me putting it here Mike. :lol:
Follow this and you won't go wrong.
I thought it was worth posting it again.


OK, before anyone asks - the picture of me ...

1) Get a small Jpeg picture of yourself (in my case a caricature)
2) Go to www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/
3) Follow the three simple steps to load your picture and shrink its size to 80 pixels square.
4) Choose which of the 3 versions they offer that you like (less than 6Kb size)
5) Store it in a seperate new folder on your hard drive (eg. c:\avatar for oscars)
6) Log in to change your profile on this BBS
7) Scroll to the very bottom and select 'load from this computer'

Hey presto ! you now have an idea what I look like.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:37 pm
by Stevo
:D Thanks Guys, I'll give it a whirl. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the computor just the operator.
Regards,
Stevo

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:01 am
by Stevo
Thanks again to Oscar, Kev and Mike (even if he doesn't know it). Not the most flattering photo granted but at least I know how to do it now. Great site for creating Avatar. I notice they also host pictures, I'll give a picture post ago next. Don't expect much as I've tried to do this many times in the past and failed miserably.
Regards,
Stevo