About The Siesta...

[AB Editor]

Dear All,

The AnswerBank will be down for an hour this afternoon at 3pm.

I suggest you spend an hour over at Gravatar.com signing up and picking yourself a nice Avatar.

Make sure:

1. Your AB email address is the same as your Gravatar Address
2. That you use a "Clean" Avatar
3. Activate your Avatar by visiting My profile and clicking through to "Edit user details" - there is a tick-box here to enable your Avatar.

There are other features, but I think we will let you figure them out by yourself.

Oh, and if something isn't working for you, try Ctrl-f5 first.

Please post criticism and issues in this thread please. We have done some testing, but we only had around 40 testers - so this is the real test for the new systems! Bear with us, I assume the first few minutes will be "rocky"!

All the best

Spare Ed

[AB Editor]

You can change, but it takes a while to "catch up" - so getting it right the first time is probably wise!

See you on the other side everyone!

Spare Ed

[kayakamina]

I've registered at Gravatar, used the same e-mail address, uploaded the avatar from my harddrive and cropped it and rated it G.
I go onto My Profile and the edit user details but cannot see the 'tick box' to enable the avatar.
Please advise me.

[Old_Geezer]

Probably not available until after the 3pm siesta ?

[ABerrant]

A public member profile - I wonder what the abuse of this feature will cause to happen?

[netibiza]

Can't we get an avatar from somewhere else. By the time I've worked it all out all the good avatars will have gone!

[chelle7272]

I don't have a check box appearing on my profile to activate it?

[netibiza]

help... gravatar wants to me to click on an url, I don't have one to click

[Old_Geezer]

?!? I expect it wants you to enter one. You have to have found the picture you want and enter it's location/name.

[netibiza]

Don't know how, but I've done it! yay!

[Mamyalynne]

I have done ALL the above and still no tick box??

[netibiza]

I think it's at the top of your edit user details

[Mamyalynne]

Its not, sob, sulk, sniff.

[Jan1957]

Did you rate your avatar as 'G' in Gravatar.com mamya? Otherwise it will now show it.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes did that

[Jan1957]

Sorry, I don't know what else to suggest :-(

[Mamyalynne]

Got it now, seems you click on where the box should beLOL

[eash]

Just testing to see if mine worked :-)

[AB Editor]

Well done guys

Looking Good.

Spare

[sara3]

Dear Ed, I cropped my bottom. how does it look?

[beejay1124]

Sara-thot you made a typo there
phew