The British and Irish Meteorite Society

In most forums one can put a small and invariably annoying image as an avatar that appears next to our posts. Although I suspect I am more complex than any av I could pick to "sum up" what my personal Zeitgeist is, I still have an urge to put one there to show you all how deep and provocative I am!

any ideas?

Avatars are now enabled

User Control Panel > Profile > Edit Avatar

If you don't have your own avatar image to use, I've just uploaded over 1200 to the avatar gallery for you to choose from:

User Control Panel > Profile > Edit Avatar > Display Gallery

Does this board have an option to use Gravatars?

Matt
That's excellent cos all of my avatars (all the clever ones I have gleaned from other forumeers over the years) are too big for me to upload and I can't be bothered to start shrinking them down!
Ill have a trawl....

Marko wrote:Does this board have an option to use Gravatars?

I don't think it's available in the default installation, there are hacks to use them but (to be honest) that would be fairly low on my list of priorities at the moment. Live chat on the other hand is a higher priority

Matt.

Just sorted out an 'Avatar' for myself, well one does doesn't one?!
I think the Forums are brilliant, and I shall using them frequently. Well done Matt!

Matt Smith wrote:

Marko wrote:Does this board have an option to use Gravatars?

I don't think it's available in the default installation, there are hacks to use them but (to be honest) that would be fairly low on my list of priorities at the moment. Live chat on the other hand is a higher priority

Matt.

oh jeez, yeah, very low priority! I am just really happy that we have this fantastic forum.

I had an avatar from another forum.
It took 45 minutes to resize and 16 bitmap it, but finally succeeded.

Budgieye wrote:I had an avatar from another forum.
It took 45 minutes to resize and 16 bitmap it, but finally succeeded.

I uploaded a load of pics onto Photobucket and that provides a resize option... worth a try if any posters here want to upload pics onto the forum.

best!
-d-