vintagedream
Joined: 29 Sep 2005
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 Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:47 pm Post subject: HELP! |
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Okay, so I realize this may be the most idiotic question you'll ever hear (or read rather). But how do you get those avatars beside your penname? I have tried, and tried again! I cannot figure it out.
Go ahead...laugh yourself senseless. But please, give me some instruction! Thanks!  |
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ellisk
Joined: 23 Jan 2004
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Location: Icon by Alassante! Wow!
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| Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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It's not a silly question. Here's how you do it:
First, make yourself an avatar or have someone else make one for you. It has to be 100x100 pixels or smaller. It also has to be a .gif or a .jpg file. (When I had trouble getting mine up there, it was because it was too big or the wrong file type).
Then store it on a place like photobucket or tinypic and record the URL they give you for your picture. (You can find those sites by typing their name into your favorite search engine and they let you store for free.)
Then, when you are logged into this site, click the link at the top called "Profile." On that page, in the space for the avatar, paste the URL for your picture that points to where ever you stored it.
That's all there is to it. Hope this helps. 
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ghettoelleth
Joined: 06 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: HELP! |
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| vintagedream wrote: | Okay, so I realize this may be the most idiotic question you'll ever hear (or read rather). But how do you get those avatars beside your penname? I have tried, and tried again! I cannot figure it out.
Go ahead...laugh yourself senseless. But please, give me some instruction! Thanks! |
Not even close, honey.
Go here
http://tinypic.com/
Upload your avatar, (Al makes them, I make them, and alot of other people as well. There are also tons of sites with ready made ones, or make your own, that's always fun)
Instructions for uploading are there on tinypic.
Once you get your avi, (the name for those little tiny pics, also, avatar) uploaded, scroll to the bottom. There are four little windows, right click and copy the the little window that says Url. Then as Ellisk says, come to osa and go to the page that says profile. Scroll down to the window that says, Use Avatar, click the arrow for the drop down and click Yes. In the next window, where it says avatar file, right click and paste the info from the Url window at tinypic.com. Click submit at the bottom of the page. As long as your avatar is 100 pixels (as Ellisk said), it should show up once you back out of profile and check a recent post that you have made. Now, I know I just repeated most of what Ellisk said, but I was such a putertard when I first came to osa, I never would have been able to figure that out, so no offense, Ell, mine's just the Sesame Street version 
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