How To Select an Avatar Icon
Posted: Oct 15, 2004 1:07pm
To select an avatar icon from the gallery, go to your profile, scroll to the bottom, and click on "Show Gallery". A new page will open where you can select your avatar by clicking on the circle underneath one of the icons. When you're done selecting, scroll to the bottom and click "Select Avatar".
To use an avatar that is not in the gallery, enter the URL address of the image in the "Link to off-site Avatar" field. You should only link to images that are yours. Do not link to images on other people's websites, because that steals their bandwidth and costs them money. The image type must be a JPEG, GIF, or PNG, and the image dimensions cannot be more than 80 pixels wide and 80 pixels high. If your image is too big or of the wrong file type, use a program to to fix it (Irfanview, for example), and then upload the image to your website. If you don't have a website, you can use a free site such as Photobucket to store your image.
For those of you who want assitance in finding some external avatars, Knight in Dark Armour suggests the site Ultimate Avatar Source. Be warned, though, that the page takes a long, LONG time to load.
To use an avatar that is not in the gallery, enter the URL address of the image in the "Link to off-site Avatar" field. You should only link to images that are yours. Do not link to images on other people's websites, because that steals their bandwidth and costs them money. The image type must be a JPEG, GIF, or PNG, and the image dimensions cannot be more than 80 pixels wide and 80 pixels high. If your image is too big or of the wrong file type, use a program to to fix it (Irfanview, for example), and then upload the image to your website. If you don't have a website, you can use a free site such as Photobucket to store your image.
For those of you who want assitance in finding some external avatars, Knight in Dark Armour suggests the site Ultimate Avatar Source. Be warned, though, that the page takes a long, LONG time to load.
