Post by JR Chandler on Oct 5, 2008 21:47:34 GMT -5
Sigs and Avs, what are they? how do I get them? do I want them?
If you're confused about any of this, hopefully this thread will help.
AVATAR
An Avatar, Av, or icon (can be called many things) is the picture that shows up on the left of your screen underneath your name by any of your posts. Most appropriately for this picture you should pick a picture of your character (or one of your characters).
Here's how you do it:
1. Find a picture! This is the fun part, look around the internet to find a picture you like of your character. Lots of sites even have them in small icon form. If not, a square picture works best (if you cant find one the right shape, pm me and I can crop it for you).
2. In order to use the picture you found, you'll need to upload it to an image hosting site. I use www.photobucket.com because I find it easy to use, but you may know of another.
3. Once you've uploaded the photo, click on "profile" on the top of your screen and go to "modify profile" (this is the same place you go to change your display name). Scroll down to where it says "Avatar URL" and copy and past the url from photobucket (or whatever hosting site you use) to this area. Avatars can be no bigger than 100x100. If it is bigger, the site automatically makes it smaller, which may distort your picture. If you need help correcting this, again pm me and I'll see what I can do!
Signatures
Your signature is the picture that appears at the bottom of every post. This again should be a picture of your character/characters (here you can use more than one picture if they're not too big)
1. Same as step 1 of Avatar instructions: find a picture
2. Same as step 2 - upload to image hosting site
3. Again, go to Modify profile. This time go to where it says signature. Here is where it differs slightly from adding an avatar. Instead of just putting the url for the picture you need to put a "code" around it. If you're on photobucket, there will be an option by your pictures called IMG code. This is what you need to copy and paste into the signature box. If you have trouble getting this to work, let me know.
There is a limit to how big signatures can be. This is to try to keep the loading time for the site from being too long with lots of large pictures. The limitation for signatures is 600x350. Anything smaller than that is fine. If your picture is too big, and you're unsure how to resize, pm me, I can help!
The maximum size appears like this:
If you're confused about any of this, hopefully this thread will help.
AVATAR
An Avatar, Av, or icon (can be called many things) is the picture that shows up on the left of your screen underneath your name by any of your posts. Most appropriately for this picture you should pick a picture of your character (or one of your characters).
Here's how you do it:
1. Find a picture! This is the fun part, look around the internet to find a picture you like of your character. Lots of sites even have them in small icon form. If not, a square picture works best (if you cant find one the right shape, pm me and I can crop it for you).
2. In order to use the picture you found, you'll need to upload it to an image hosting site. I use www.photobucket.com because I find it easy to use, but you may know of another.
3. Once you've uploaded the photo, click on "profile" on the top of your screen and go to "modify profile" (this is the same place you go to change your display name). Scroll down to where it says "Avatar URL" and copy and past the url from photobucket (or whatever hosting site you use) to this area. Avatars can be no bigger than 100x100. If it is bigger, the site automatically makes it smaller, which may distort your picture. If you need help correcting this, again pm me and I'll see what I can do!
Signatures
Your signature is the picture that appears at the bottom of every post. This again should be a picture of your character/characters (here you can use more than one picture if they're not too big)
1. Same as step 1 of Avatar instructions: find a picture
2. Same as step 2 - upload to image hosting site
3. Again, go to Modify profile. This time go to where it says signature. Here is where it differs slightly from adding an avatar. Instead of just putting the url for the picture you need to put a "code" around it. If you're on photobucket, there will be an option by your pictures called IMG code. This is what you need to copy and paste into the signature box. If you have trouble getting this to work, let me know.
There is a limit to how big signatures can be. This is to try to keep the loading time for the site from being too long with lots of large pictures. The limitation for signatures is 600x350. Anything smaller than that is fine. If your picture is too big, and you're unsure how to resize, pm me, I can help!
The maximum size appears like this: