IV. Adding Avatars, Signatures, etc.
Avatars:
An avatar is a small image displayed under your name when you post. To get one, you must first have the URL to the avatar.
Currently we don't have support for off-site avatars, but we are working hard on getting that and it will be announced the moment we get it.
To upload an Avatar, click on "
User CP". On that page, go down the list of sections until you come across "
Edit Avatar". You will then see the forms to either upload from your hard drive, or upload via a server.
Signature:
Signatures are little snips of text and an image or two that will display at the bottom of each and every post of yours. First, to edit your signatures go into "
User CP" and then click "
Edit Signature". You now may add text and images.
To add an image, first upload it. There are many options when it comes to uploading images. The two most common image hosts are
imageshack.us and
photobucket.com.
To make the image show up you need to use BBC. If you are using the Basic and Standard text Editor, you can type in the code yourself. Simply put [img]urlhere[/img] in the text box.
If you use the Standard or Enhanced text Editor you can simply click the picture of mountians in the text edit menu. Instert the URL of the image, and you're done.
The maximum Signature size is 500 X 500 pixels. If you happen to go over that limit and don't have a advanced image editing software, here is a simple walkthrough on how to resize using MSPaint.
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Save the image to hard drive, and open it with MS Paint.
You then use the select tool(a rectangle made from dotted lines) and select the whole image by clicking on one corner of the image, and holding down the button while you drag it to the oppisite corner, and then let go of the button.
Now that you have selected the image, There should be a small square at each corner and the mid section of the selection line. Put your mouse over one of those squares, and you should beable to resize it. You can see the current size on the right of that bottom status bar.
>>Now, if you want it too be on the same ratio as the original, you might
>>want to calculate that out if you know how to. If you can't calculate, I >>am sorry, but I can not help you with that.
And after you have resize the image, you will still have a white area. To get rid of that, just click off of the image and white area, and there should now be little squares around the white area. You then re-size that the same way as you did with image.
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