Official Avatar Thread

[Rally]

Avatar info, requests and testing.





Avatar FAQ:



Q: How do I add an avatar to my profile?

A: Go to the My Control Center link at the top of the forum >

Select Edit Profile >

Check the Use Personal Photo box >

Enter the URL of your Personal Photo >

Save Changes



Q: What is a hot link?

A: A hotlink is when you use the image tag to link a picture within your post or profile.



Q: Can I have an animated Gif as an avatar?

A: Yes



Q: Where is a good place to host my avatar?

A: 50megs.com allows hotlinking, many sites such as Yahoo

and other free webspaces, however, do not.



Q: Can I do a save image as on someone else's avatar?

A: No, this is considered stealing an avatar. Do not take avatars unless they are posted in this thread but that does not include avatars underneath people's names.



Q: Where can I get images or avatars?

A: Here is a list of hot linkable avatars:



Rally's Avatars



Eekdgeek's Hush

Eekdgeek's The Body



Under Her Spell's Hush

Under Her Spell's MKF



Non hot linkable avatars, you can use the image, but must relocate it to another server:



Liz's Avatars



Kittens who can host avatars:



Jomarch - sjooi@singnet.com.sg"> sjooi@singnet.com.sg



Xita - xita@xita.org"> xita@xita.org



Under Construction



Email with suggestions comments rally@rallyvincent.com"> rally@rallyvincent.com

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"Everyone's getting spanked but me."

Edited by: maudmac at: 5/30/03 1:24:45 am

[Still Waters Run Deep]

Hi Rally, OOO, first reply....I've got Yahoo, briefcase...altho' its a bit problematic. Would an avatar there be picked up here...? I've been using PC's for years, but I'm still bloody useless [does anyone here remember FORTRAN? ]

love, kisses .....a digon o hwyl



SWoRDie



" Hi!..um..aw...shit...he he he....'Scuz me..er.. I did'nt mean to..er....expose myself to.. ,ya know..the public...*groan* "



Amber...

[Rally]

Yahoo does something with the photos it stores, that blocks hot linking of photos. I would suggest getting an account, at either 50megs.com or Spaceports.com. They offer free website with restricted bandwidth. But they should be sufficient for hosting of avatars.



Xita and I are working on a couple mirror sites for the avatars I have up that folks can hot link to, stayed tuned for details.

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"Everyone's getting spanked but me."

Edited by: Rally at: 3/30/02 11:13:19 am

[WebWarlock]

Just a word.



A lot of home ISPs with web space also prohibit the use of hot linking pictures. I know that AT&T (ATTBI) is one of them. I tried.



Others that you can't use. NBCi, Yahoo-GeoCities & Tripod.



Warlock.

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Web Warlock,
web.warlock@attbi.com

The Other Side: http://www.xtreme-gaming.com/~theotherside/

ShadowEarth Games: http://www.rpghost.com/WebWarlock/

Liber Mysterium: the Netbook of Witches and Warlocks

[Kiwiccan]

You may want to make this a sticky post. People will always be coming in asking how to do this.

[Puff]

Ok this probably sounds stupid, but how do you get a picture to 60 pixels in size?

Where do we go from here?

[BigMac]

Thanks for the info.

Tara: Assume Crash
Positions

[Canadian Kitty]

It didn't sound stupid to me Puff since I had the same question. And how does one go about making an avatar that flips through a bunch of pitcures (a gif?)? Listen to me, I don't even have the webspace to put any avatars on yet.



CK

"You wanna go out sometime, for coffee, food, kisses and gay love?" Willow- Normal Again.

[willow420]

I'm just posting to say anyone is welcome to copy the avatars I have up, but please don't link directly to mine. I also have more at teh link below, but the same rules apply. No linking directly to me! Thanks and happy avatar hunting.



Avatars

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A.K.A. Liz


Kisses and gay love anyone?
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When it comes to love, I just don't see straight.

[Dream]

Well, I spent the last hour hunting for webspace for my avatar (stupid geocities, grrr), and since I now have a whole accont with nothing on it - if anyone needs a space for their avatar, I can host it for you... (Assuming I will make mine work!)



And to think I stayed up till 4 in the morning for that...

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Reish's Little Corner Of Insanity

Come on in... I dare you...

Edited by: Dream  at: 3/30/02 4:59:59 pm

[jessan15]

Ok let's see if I got this even remotely close to being right...oh, much thanks to Zahir for his creative efforts.



Reminder...anyone who has AOL has ftp space which is about useless except for something like this.



If anyone has AOL and would like an explanation of how to do this, email me.

Love Will Find a Way

Edited by: jessan15 at: 3/30/02 5:14:01 pm

[supermus]

Hey, Dream, could you host my avatar pic? It's at www.geocities.com/motofrodo/WT.jpg. Thanx a bunch.



Edited to add: WTF? It just suddenly worked? That's strange. maybe it had something to do with my putting the link in there. Curiouser and Curiouser.

Edited again to add: Okay, what the freak! It works, then it doesn't? Dream, I guess I still need it hosted away from Geocities : --> .

"Nothing gets in the way of fate Lilah. Not time, not space, not distance, no person or creature. Not even death. Eventually fate will bring them together."

-Excerpt from Katharyn's "The Sidestep Chronicle"

Edited by: supermus at: 3/30/02 6:17:13 pm

[TrueXena]

Question about the old avatar's that were used.



You know the ones that showed if you was a "blessed wannabe" comparative to a "cool monster fighter"?



Is there someplace i could snag those avatar's and save them to my site to load for when i move up the chain again?



If not, no problem, i was just likeing those and it was something I was looking forward to when getting a new ranking is all.



Thanks

Later dayz,

TrueXena



Doc: "I'm the happy peppy pimp, 'cause I don't beat my hos!'"

[Dream]

Hey Rally, are you sure Spaceports allow hot linking?

Cuz otherwise I'm just incredibly stupid and can't make my avatar work for no other reason...

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Reish's Little Corner Of Insanity

Come on in... I dare you...

Edited by: Dream  at: 3/31/02 2:52:29 am

[delany]

i'm with CK..

how do you make the pictures go flippy?

cos i got the pics for the flippy.. got the webspace for the flippy .. just need to know how to make it flip.. someone tell me how to make it flip? i would like it to flip..



oh and puffles, i would just go inot paint of photoshop or whatever and shrink the pic to 60pix. or theres this other way in html but i dunno..i'm sure theres some other ways of doing it, but i know as much about computers as i do about the mating habits of a macaw.

[La]

Dream, I'm not sure spaceports is cool with the hotlinking since I tried that too and I couldn't get my avatar to work. Or else I'm just doing something wrong!

~La

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"No one can resist the golden lasso. It binds all who are encircled and compels them to tell... the truth!"
~Wonder Woman

[Dream]

Grr argh.

In that case, does someone know of a free webhosting that does support hot linking?

I'm not ready to give up on my avatar!

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Reish's Little Corner Of Insanity

Come on in... I dare you...

[supermus]

try http://www.envy.nu . I'm pretty sure they allow hotlinking.

"Nothing gets in the way of fate Lilah. Not time, not space, not distance, no person or creature. Not even death. Eventually fate will bring them together."

-Excerpt from Katharyn's "The Sidestep Chronicle"

[Canadian Kitty]

Yes Delany, it's all about the flippy. Never mind that I'm still trying to figure out how to get a place to put the pics, shrink them to the proper size, and then shimmy them over here. What can I say. I aim high. I want the flippy!



CK

"You wanna go out sometime, for coffee, food, kisses and gay love?" Willow- Normal Again.

[Dream]

Thanks supermus!

Frustration was eating me...

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Reish's Little Corner Of Insanity

Come on in... I dare you...

[La]

50megs.com seems to be okay with the hotlinking.

~La

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"No one can resist the golden lasso. It binds all who are encircled and compels them to tell... the truth!"
~Wonder Woman

Edited by: La at: 3/31/02 6:15:46 am

[delany]

CK,

mail me if you want info on pics and stuff and if you need a place to host. i gots a little bitty bit of space specially reserved with your name on it



and then we can go on the quest for the flippy together

[tyche]

I now have an account with free webspace and I've worked out how to crop pictures properly, so I will work on converting some of the W and T pictures on my hard drive to usable avatars. Might take a few days, though.

[Still Waters Run Deep]

Thanks Tyche, I managed to get an account at 50meg.com, but I'm unsure as to use the bloody thing. If I prepare some thumbs/avatars and zip em, can I email them to you, or vice-versa, once I get my site up?

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love and kisses ..... .. SWoRDie



"Hi!..um..aw...shit...he he he....'Scuz me..er.. I did'nt mean to..er....expose myself to.. ,ya know..the public...*groan* "



Amber..........

[Kieli]

Sorry Super and Dream....envy.nu does NOT allow hotlinking....see here and then attempt to sign up...it will tell you what is not allowed...*still searching for a hotlinking site*

"I withdrew from the world, not because I had enemies but because I had friends. Not because they did me ill turn, as is customary, but because they thought me better than I am. It was a lie I could not endure." --Albert Camus

[Lindy]

well, I never had any problems with hotlinking, but the provider is my phone company, and its german.. and you need to live in Germany also, because they send you some information and registration stuff/letters. German Kittens should try Arcor.de



but as I hardly ever use my webspace I would be glad to help some of you out and host your avatars.



Just let me know



edited to add my e-mail addy.. just send me your stuff, yo



ok, here goes: ajm77linda@hotmail.com

Edited by: Lindy at: 3/31/02 10:09:58 am

[TrueXena]

I wanna know how to do the flippy too. I want a flippy avatar!

Later dayz,

TrueXena



Doc: "I'm the happy peppy pimp, 'cause I don't beat my hos!'"

[Hush]

I have webspace at 50megs.com but I'll only use it to host my avatar. I have just figured out how to upload images, uff.

If someone needs webspace e-mail me at chus130@yahoo.es or my yahoo messenger is chus130

And can someone tell me how to make the flippy thingy?

[feena191]

you need a gif animator, & you just put in as many pics as you want to flip. I've got microsoft gif animator, but don't know where I got it from



if you put gif animator freeware in google it brings up a load, but I don't know if any/all of them are any good.

"Was there a camel?"

"There was the front of a camel. A half-camel."

[Canadian Kitty]

Aww, Delany that's very sweet of you. I look forward to our many adventures together in search of the flippy.



I didn't find your email address in your profile. It's entirely possible I'm being a doofus-head and looking in the wrong place but could you let me know what it is.



And then you most certainly will get an email from me. Although your offer for info on pics and stuff may just open a big can of cyber worms that, after my billionth question, you may want to choke me with.



CK

"You wanna go out sometime, for coffee, food, kisses and gay love?" Willow- Normal Again.