Getting Yourself An Avatar

[AB Editor]

Good Day AnswerBankers.

I would like to use this opportunity to thank you very much for your patience. We now have Avatar, for those who want them.

We have decided to use Gravatar's system as it was quick, simple and reliable.

How To Get An Avatar:

First you must sign up to Gravatar.com here: http://en.gravatar.com/site/signup/
(Please use the same email address as you use for The AnswerBank)

Click the link in the email Gravatar sends you.

Create a username and password for Gravatar. These DO NOT have to be the same as your AB username and password.

Log in to Gravatar and select where you want to load an image from:

IF you want to load it from the net, find the picture you want, and its URL, and copy and paste it into the given field.

IF you want to load a picture from your computer, select this option. Click the "Browse" button and find the file you wish to upload to the site. Click "Next".

On the next page crop your image (if you wish) with the small square "handles" on the box within your image. When happy, click "crop and finish".

Rate your Avatar. Answerbank will only accept a "G" rated Avatar.

That is your Gravatar Account Set up. Next...

[AB Editor]

To show your avatar on AB you need to:

Have been a member for at least 14 days

Have posted 10 valid questions or answers (i.e. not had them removed)


IF you meet these requirments and would like and Avatar you must activate it.

To activate your Avatar please Log in

Click here to edit your user details

At the top of the box labelled "Edit Profile" there should be a tick box. If you want to activate your Avatar, tick the box.

Scroll down and click submit.

You should be good to go!

[AB Editor]

If you need to change your email address in your AnswerBank account, please visit the "edit details" page and change it there.

You must use an email address which is not in use on AB already.

Remember, your email address must match in Gravatar and AB.

[society]

Ed, I think you should make this post a 'sticky' for a few days in every forum.

[AB Editor]

If you're still having problems, try pressing Ctrl+F5 - this should clear your cache in most browsers.

Spare Ed

[AB Editor]

Found the clairvoyance section Society?

[society]

Not yet, where's it? I'll go take a look... :-)

[cherrychapstick]

hi ed sorry but what dows this mean please am i just being thick "You must use an email address which is not in use on AB already." mine was already used on answerbank and it works fine

Regards Dawn

[craft1948]

no Dawn he means if you want to change your existing one.........

[cherrychapstick]

thank you craft ,so me being thick then sorry ed

cherry

[AB Editor]

Not thick - My language was a little inexact.

All the best

Spare Ed

[cazzz1975]

excellent stuff ed, just noticed you put this link at the top of the page. !

[AB Editor]

We only did it a second a go!

We now have RSS - let us know if you spot any bugs....

Spare

[society]

So far it's working alright.

[AB Editor]

You might need certain browser plugins for RSS to work properly. I would interested if there are any iphone users out there who are willing to test?

Spare

[craft1948]

think vibrasphere sometimes uses his iphone..........

[ummmm]

Would it work the same way as facebook does?

[cazzz1975]

I have an ipod?

[ummmm]

ipod or iphone?

[shiznit]

The RSS works fine on my iPhone, having a bit of trouble getting it to work through my RSS app, will let you know when I have it sorted.

[cherrychapstick]

like this new link