Avatars

[MissTerious]

I have set up an avatar according to AB instructions. But I can't link it to AB using AB instructions because there is no little box to click on my profile, I have sent 3 emails to the eds who have sent me the same instructions and now asked me to as for help in Technology! Any ideas.

[MissTerious]

My original post about this.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1813838.html

[youngmafbog]

OK so you have set on up in Gravatar yes?

Now go to 'view my profile'
A profile screen should start up and you will see a command button marked 'Edit Profile' Click this.
A new screen should open up with a check box (tick) below the photo. Click on it to show a tick.

Do you see any of that?

If not try another browser and let us know how you get on.

[Buenchico]

AB's server actually has three different versions of this site on it. One is for PCs and laptops, one is for tablets and the other is for phones. So, depending upon which type of device you're using, what you see might not exactly match up with what I see.

However, when I first click on 'View your profile', I see a box to activate/deactivate my avatar underneath the statistics:
https://i.postimg.cc/pLTTrZ8S/Profile1.jpg

If I then click on 'Edit my profile', there's a tick beneath my avatar to show that it's activated:
https://i.postimg.cc/65QwfQ32/Profile2.jpg

If your avatar isn't showing up, it's because AB hasn't got the same email address in your registration details as the one that you used to register with Wordpress/Gravatar with.

[MissTerious]

So the screen to connect is on Gravatar not on ÀB?. Thanks so much. I'll try it now!

[youngmafbog]

3 different versions?

How odd, there is no need to do that it can be done with one program.

[Buenchico]

>>> it can be done with one program

It can, indeed, be done with one program, YMB, but such 'responsive web design' software actually creates three separate websites that are then co-hosted at a single web address. The system then detects the type of device which is being used to view AB and displays the appropriate version.

[youngmafbog]

I know how it works. I am a programmer.

[MissTerious]

I changed my email address on AB. I can't remember the one I registered with. I'm in a total muddle now!! I think I better come off avatar completely and start again. But will this link with my changed email address on AB.

[Buenchico]

Simple ensure that the email address that you've got registered with AB is the same as the one that you use with Wordpress/Gravatar. (If necessary, create a new Wordpress/Gravatar account, using your 'AB address'). Your email address is the only link between your AB account and your Gravatar one. When you use AB, the site's server sends your email address to the Gravatar server, with a message effectively saying "Please supply the avatar that goes with this address". So it's essential that the address that Gravatar has for you is the same one that AB has for you.

[MissTerious]

A big thank you guys xx

[ToraToraTora]

All that for the back of your Bonce!

[MissTerious]

Ha ha. It might change. It was my test picture!

[jno]

all you have to do now is turn the camera around

[Buenchico]

I don't know why TTT is moaning. Most of his other posts recently have suggested that he's a great fan of a woman who doesn't know which way she's going ;-)

[ToraToraTora]

who's that? I'm no fan of Truss she was just the one I favoured out of the last 2. The lesser of two weevils as I have said a 100 times on here.

[MissTerious]

Practising