How do you put in an avatar?

[Marslet]

K- computer illiterate here --- need help with exactly how to put in an avatar. Know the picture I want to use and it is in Photobucket, just don't know what to do now. Would appreciate any help.

[Bethers]

Darn computer - was answering you and hit the wrong button and closed the window - so here goes again!

1. Click on the "User Control Panel" above this post (if you want it and the post open at the same time, right click and select to open in a new window)
2. Click on the Profile tab.
3. Click on the Edit Avatar tab.
4. Get the "Direct Link" code from Photobucket and copy it.
5. Paste the Direct Link code from Photobucket into the "Link Off-Site" space
6. Type in the dimensions of your avatar if you know them. (If the picture is small, you might be safe leaving this blank, but by typing them in, if you know them, it will make the picture the right dimensions - like mine is 75 x 79). You can always guess and change if you get stretched one way or the other lol

7. Submit

Go back and change dimensions if they were needed and you are stretched wrong

Done.

[Marslet]

Thanks Beth for your clear step by step instructions. I had success!!!!!

[Sunseeker]

There you are! (I will never forget that smile!) See, the avitar thing was easy, huh?

[Bethers]

I love that so many are putting on avatars - so nice to see everyone's smile while reading their posts

[kelpie]

why is it called an avatar? that sounds like something dangerous!

[Bethers]

I went searching on the history of avatars. I know that they are - in computerese - your digital alias. However I didn't know they actually go back years and years in other ways - and there is a great article all about them here:

The History of Avatars

[kelpie]

Way cool, Beth. Thanks, I guess I was too lazy to look it up myselk.

[Bethers]

You're welcome. I have a couple friends who call me the "google queen" cuz I can find answers to things faster than they ask the questions LOL - but I do love the internet. Good thing since it keeps me on the road. And sometimes I cuss it, too - when it doesn't give me a good answer to what I'm looking for - got lucky with that one - found that article pretty quick and thought it really good.