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** Hannah's mom ** UK · Posted: August 01 2005, 8:53 PM Post subject:

Hi Tom

I know you created the ability for us to have photos in our sigs

would it be possible for us to have Avatars at all?

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Tom · Posted: November 20 2005, 8:13 PM Post subject:

The trick here is getting a bunch of avatars to have for people to use. The coding shouldn't be too difficult. I will put this on the list of desirable enhancements.

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Mikey's Sista · Posted: November 20 2005, 10:43 PM Post subject:

Tom wrote:

The trick here is getting a bunch of avatars to have for people to use. The coding shouldn't be too difficult. I will put this on the list of desirable enhancements.

Just remember:just be careful if you let people pick the avatars to upload/get from other sites.There is a possibilty of viruses.

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helandy.cop · Posted: November 21 2005, 6:03 AM Post subject:

Excuse my computer illiteracy, but what on earth is an 'avatar'?

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Tom · Posted: November 21 2005, 7:50 AM Post subject:

Avatars are little pictures or cartoons that you can have appear under your name on each of your posts. If everyone is uing a differnt avatar, you can spot someone's post just by their avatar as you scroll through a list of posts. Look at this thread on another bulletin board for an example:

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=128508&start=0

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Tom · Posted: February 15 2006, 4:14 PM Post subject:

We now have avatars. You can set your avatar in your profile. They should be kept to 80 pixels by 80 pixels or less.

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** Hannah's mom ** UK · Posted: February 15 2006, 7:47 PM Post subject:

woo hoo

thanks Tom, I am all excited

* goes off to sort avatar out *

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lespring · Posted: February 15 2006, 9:20 PM Post subject:

Ok, but I want to know where to [giant]GET THEM[/giant]

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Tom · Posted: February 15 2006, 10:08 PM Post subject:

lespring wrote:

Ok, but I want to know where to [giant]GET THEM[/giant]

Just do a google search for avatars or buddy icons. Then you just need a place to host them. Probably the same place where you host your pictures would work.

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Jenna · Posted: February 16 2006, 1:19 PM Post subject: HELP

I can't figure out the coding....

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lespring · Posted: February 16 2006, 1:27 PM Post subject:

If you find an avatar you want, save it to your computer (righ click on it, then "save image as" The upload it to photobucket just like you would your other photos. Then go into your profile, and where the avatar space is, enter the 'url" code for the picture.

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Tom · Posted: February 16 2006, 1:43 PM Post subject:

lespring wrote:

If you find an avatar you want, save it to your computer (righ click on it, then "save image as" The upload it to photobucket just like you would your other photos. Then go into your profile, and where the avatar space is, enter the 'url" code for the picture.

The part you want to enter will start with http:// and end with .gif or .jpg

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Jenna · Posted: February 16 2006, 1:52 PM Post subject:

I keep getting this...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: startswith() in /home/virtual/site228/fst/var/www/html/forum/member.php on line 707

this is what I am using...
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e61/palofam/Avator.gif

[Edited by Jenna on 02-16-2006 at 01:04 PM]

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Tom · Posted: February 16 2006, 2:04 PM Post subject:

That is called a programming bug and when you don't test enough that is what you get.

Count to 10 and then it should work. Wink

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Jenna · Posted: February 16 2006, 2:08 PM Post subject:

I thought I was going to pull my hair out!!!

Thank you!

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Emdad · Posted: February 16 2006, 2:54 PM Post subject:

Quote:

Count to 10 and then it should work. Wink

You are quick, amigo. Very Happy

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Tom · Posted: February 16 2006, 4:11 PM Post subject:

Emdad wrote:

You are quick, amigo. Very Happy

[yellow]Fatal error: Call to undefined function: startsWith() in /home/virtual/site228/fst/var/www/html/forum/member.php on line 707[/yellow]

The function startsWith() should have been beginsWith(). Not exactly a complicated fix. Wink

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vonda · Posted: February 16 2006, 4:18 PM Post subject:

Now you guys just KNOW I'm gonna want to do this. I'm so not good with this, Lord help me, gonna go try.

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Libby · Posted: February 16 2006, 4:25 PM Post subject:

I tried to post a picture of William and me from photobucket.com. It kept coming up so HUGE. I resized it and resized it to no avail. Any ideas for this computer illiterate person?

Thank you!

Libby

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Tom · Posted: February 16 2006, 4:29 PM Post subject:

Libby wrote:

I tried to post a picture of William and me from photobucket.com. It kept coming up so HUGE. I resized it and resized it to no avail. Any ideas for this computer illiterate person?

Thank you!

Libby

Give me the url of the picture and I will resize it for you.

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Libby · Posted: February 16 2006, 5:12 PM Post subject:

Uh, Tom? Is this it? Haha. I know it is, but did I post it correctly? You're sure nice to do this. I've already resized it several times on photobucket, so it may be too small already. Who knows. Thank you again and again!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v626/LibbyH/DSCN2065.jpg

Libby

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Tom · Posted: February 16 2006, 6:00 PM Post subject:

Yep, it's way too tiny now. Probably when you were resizing you had it the right size at one point but your browser was still showing you the old version. If I resize it now it's just a blur because all the detail has been lost. Can you get the original size one back?

Since you resized it, by the way, the version on "What do we look like" thread is a tiny little picture.

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