Malaysia Veterinary Forum (Archive)

admin · Joined: 24 Sep 2005 Posts: 214 Location: vet.com.my

You might wonder why some users have a "personal photo" under their user name. For example, see the profile of Dr. TanDY .

The graphical image of a user is also known as "avatar". It is a graphical personification of a user like those used in real-time Chat applications.

To add an avatar to your profile, follow these steps:

1. Go to your Profile by clicking on the Profile button (at the top bar).

2. Scroll down to the "Avatar control panel" and you should see a box named "Link to off-site Avatar:".

3. Ok now you need to put a link to the photo of your choice:

For example, say you like to put the SIRIM ISO photo as your avatar...

...and it happens that you find out this website has the photo that you need:

http://www.vet.upm.edu.my

then you point your mouse over the ISO SIRIM photo and right-click. Choose properties. You should see a URL for that SIRIM ISO photo. Copy that URL.

4. Paste that URL into the "Link to off-site Avatar:" box and click submit. You should now be able to see the SIRIM ISO photo in your profile.

5. That's all. Of course you can choose a better avatar than the SIRIM ISO photo!
:lol:

Have fun!

(Note: Your avatar size should not be bigger than 130 x130 in pixels
You can also upload your avatar to imageshack first ( http://imageshack.us/ ) and then get the link to the image)

dsalish · Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 45 Location: Penang, Malaysia

I am a registered user...I am trying to update my profile and also add an avatar from my disk. however after I make the changes and insert the file location of my avatar, I press submit but check again with no change. I have even logged off andlogged back on to make sure but nothing changes.

help!

Dr. TanDY · Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject:

dsalish, from my understanding you have to link a picture from other site to be your avatar. I don't think you can upload your avatar from your hard disk though. Try linking a photo from other sites (like thumbnail version of you photo you upload to imageshack)

dsalish · Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 45 Location: Penang, Malaysia

well the profile portion of this forum has a space to upload an avatar from your own machine as one of the options. I also uploaded the image to Imageshack and then copied and pasted 4 of the available 6 addresses to upload my avatar but none work!

I tried all three in the thumbnail portion and tried one in the embedded portion of codes within Image shack. Please can you help..

Here are the codes according to imageshack:
Thumbnail Forums:

Thumbnail Sites:
<a><img></a>
Thumbnail direct:
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/2790/lickinmychopsnt2.jpg

Embedded Codes Forums:

Embedded Codes Sites:
<img>
Embedded codes Friends:
http://img244.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lickinmychopsnt2.jpg[u]

dsalish · Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 45 Location: Penang, Malaysia

I actually entered the text string associated with each of those categories but the Vet Forum actually imbedded the image.

Dr. TanDY · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject:

I guess you have already known how to get your avatar right. Great :-)

dsalish · Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 45 Location: Penang, Malaysia

yes finally figured it out. I took my picture into Adobe Illustrator, scaled it down 25% less than original size to create a thumbnail size and exported it to JPG format. then I uploaded it directly from my disk to the profile...without using external imageshack or equivalent...thanks

I think what was happening was my picture was too many pixels ...anyway thanks.