From bdGreen

Avatars


Choose your picture.

Resize the image to 60X60 pixels.

Upload the resized image to Photobucket (or an image server of your choice) and keep it stored there.

Now, Go to the forum menu header and press

'GO'
'PERSONAL ZONE'
'PROFILE'


Mouse over and press 'View/Edit Complete Profile'
Scroll down to 'Avatar / Picture URL:'

Press ‘EDIT’

The empty white box under the 'Provide Custom Avatar: URL for your Custom Avatar' is where you will copy the URL from under the picture you have placed in Photobucket. This means go to the image in Photobucket. Under your image you will find

'Email & IM'
'Direct Link'
'HTML code'
'IMG code'

Tap the left mouse button over the 'Direct Link' box one time. The background should turn blue.
Right click the location and scroll down to copy and click it.

Now, go back to your "AVATAR Selection screen and paste your 'Direct Link' in the white box.

Press the 'UPDATE AVATAR' button
Then press 'Select This One'
You should see an immediate response. Your Avatar should pop up on your Public Profile Fields screen.

Go down to the lower left of the page and press 'SUBMIT'.

You are done. It will automatically attach to any new and old posts that you have. You will see the change after submitting your next post.
Good luck.

bdGreen

quote:

Resize the image to 60X60 pixels.

Some of our members are on dial up and when trying to load the big avatars it slows them to a crawl, please be considerate of them and resize.

BTW, just because you avatar looks to be the right size, it may not be. The forum software will automatically resize it if it is too big, but not until after the larger photo downloads. Which is what binds up the dial up people.

bob

bd,

Thanks again for posting these instructions. I've "featured" the post so that it hang out at the top of the forum list without "BTTT" it every couple of days/weeks/months.

... sprey