using pictures

[upnorth]

I noticed most members have a little picture on the left of their posts with their name etc. I'm wondering how I would do that?

[ArgyrosfeniX]

Upnorth,

Are you referring to the images, such as my smilie faces?

If so, they are called "avatars" there are a few ways to include them:

*** You can use one of the standards that comes with the site. ***
1) From the home page, just under the banner, there are seven buttons with the second from the right being "PROFILE". Click on that.

2) Now you should see sections similar to this going down the page -> *Banner, *Ads, *Welcome, *View Profile: yourname (username: yourname). On the next line of type down from that, there is bold type "Member's Bio - Modify Profile - Bookmarks". Click on Modify Profile.

3) In the "Modify Profile" section, you'll see all different things that you can change about your account. Right now, you'd like to change your avatar. In this case we'd like to use one of the website supplied avatars, so we'll go down to the "dropdown selection" named Avatar. Choose which one you'd like to use, then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "Modify Profile". That should do it for you!

*** You can use one of your own images from offsite. ***
1) Follow steps 1 & 2 as above.

2) In the "Modify Profile" section, you'll see all different things that you can change about your account. Right now, you'd like to change your avatar. In this case, we'd like to use an offsite avatar, so we'll go down to the "text entry" named Avatar URL. Here, you can enter the URL of the image you'd like to use from offsite. After entering the URL, you must include the image's size in the next 2 "text entry" sections -> Avatar Width & Avatar Height. Note that your image cannot be larger than 100x100 pixels! Once that information is entered, then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "Modify Profile". That should do it for you!

Enjoy your new Avatar!

[Ms B.]

Thank you for explaining that! I think if I had of tried I would've flipped out after 2 lines and stared into space for 3 hours

If you don't like any of the pics in the gallery (I tried to upload a variety but I don't know if I was successful) and want to upload your own avatar Upnorth, you can use photobucket to upload your image to. There's also image shack but I remember being told that they delete stuff without warning.

[upnorth]

Thanks so much for your help guys. The instructions were marvelous. I'm going with the white wolf for now. Weird, because I've been in the profile section a couple times and hadn't seen it. I think sometimes I can be kindof unobservant.....

[Ms B.]

Don't worry, I think being unobservant goes with the illness
When I was setting this forum up I had no idea where anything was so I'd look it up in the help section and then when it told me I'd always be like this and wonder why I didn't see it in the first place ;D

And the wolf is looking good!