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Avatars, signatures and pictures in messages « Thread Started on Mar 10, 2005, 9:38pm »
This thread contains some instructions for setting up an avatar or a signature, and how to put a picture in a message.
First of all...
To make a picture available to use in a message or as an avatar.
To use a picture (eg as your avatar or in a message), you need to put it up onto the Web somewhere and then reference it.
1. First find your picture. C19 and the other RA forums and websites have plenty of them. Right-click the photo and select “Save Picture As” to save it somewhere on your computer.
2. Then you need to store the photo on the web. One possibility is to sign up for a Photobucket album. Go to www.photobucket.com and follow the instructions to register. When you’ve done that, you have to load up the photo from your computer to the Photobucket album. Under where it says Upload Images and Videos, click on Choose Files and point to where you saved the photo on your computer. It should then be uploaded to Photobucket. If it works, the photo should now be shown further down the page.
3. You can add more pictures to your Photobucket album whenever you want.
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Re: Avatars, signatures and pictures in messages « Reply #1 on Mar 10, 2005, 9:40pm »
To use a picture in a message.
Go to your Photobucket album and find the photo you want to use. Underneath the photo, click on the text in the “Img” box. It will be copied to your Clipboard. Then, when you write your message on C19, simply paste it into your message (right click in the message, and select Paste).
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Re: Avatars, signatures and pictures in messages « Reply #2 on Mar 10, 2005, 9:41pm »
To set up an avatar.
Your avatar is the picture on the left of your messages under your name. To set one up…
1. While signed in to C19, go to your profile (click on the Profile button towards the top of the screen). Click on "Modify Profile" at the top of your profile.
2. Go down to the section called Personal Information. The box labelled Personal Text is where you can type any text that you’d like to appear underneath your avatar picture.
3. If you want to use one of the built-in pictures for your avatar, select it from the drop down list box to the right of where it says "Avatar". When you’ve selected a picture, click Modify Profile at the bottom of the page, and check the result.
4. If you want to use your own photo as your avatar, select "None" from the drop-down list box. Then open up another copy of Internet Explorer, go to your Photobucket album, and find the photo. Underneath the photo, select all the text in the box labelled “Url” and copy it.
5. Go back to your C19 profile. Paste the text you copied from your album into the long box to the right of where it says "Avatar URL".
6. Put some values into the "Avatar Width" and "Avatar Height" boxes- any number up to 100. If the photo is square, choose 100 and 100. If it isn't square, you'll need to experiment with a width and a height that will make the picture appear correct (otherwise it will appear squashed). Experiment – type in couple of values for a Width and a Height. Then click Modify Profile. You’ll be able to see the result. If it needs adjustment, go back to Modify Profile and try some different values.
Nb. In Photobucket, it's possible to put all your photos into one big album. However, you can also create sub-albums, and arrange your photos in them. If your avatar picture is in a sub-album, make sure that the name of the sub-album doesn't have any spaces in it. If it does, the avatar photo won't work. It must either be in the main album, or in a sub-album whose name doesn't have any spaces.
This only affects avatar pictures. Pictures in messages or signatures can come from sub-albums with spaces in their names.
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Re: Avatars, signatures and pictures in messages « Reply #3 on Mar 10, 2005, 9:43pm »
To set up a signature.
Your signature appears at the bottom of your messages, in small type.
Go into your profile, as above. Then go down to the Personal Information section. Type what you want into your Signature box (you can type in up to 400 characters).
You can even put in a picture. Just follow the instructions for putting a picture in a message. In other words, under the picture in Photobucket, copy the text in the box labelled "Img" and paste it into the Signature box in your profile. If you want to centre the picture in your signature, type {center} before the name of the picture, and {/center} after it - but use square brackets instead of {} Then click Modify Profile.
Nb If you use a picture in your signature, please note that the C19 rules ask that you keep the size of your signature to no more than 500 pixels in width and 200 pixels in height. This applies to the whole signature, so if it contains more than one picture, the total size should be no more than 500x200.
You should be able to find out the size of an individual picture fairly easily, for example in your photo-editing program, or in Windows Explorer if you hover the cursor over the file name.
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Re: Avatars, signatures and pictures in messages « Reply #4 on Mar 11, 2005, 12:09pm »
Annette
Thanks for taking the time to put in these simple instructions - will have a go at putting a picture in a message soon (Didn't realise it was so easy!)
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