How To Add A Picture To The Top-Left Of Your Posts.

[zzR]

Updated 2010.06.24.

 

Add your own "Avatar"

and it will automatically display

at the top-left of all your posts

in these "thetaobums.com" forums.

 

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On This Page Or Any Forum Page, ..

 

- RIGHT-Click on your "User-Name"

in the very top right-hand corner.

 

Then In the drop-down menu that appears

from your browser, ..

 

- Select "Open Link In New Tab".

(or "Open Link In New Window".)

 

That will open the "Viewing Profile" page,

and that will leave these instructions

easily available to you

in a separate tab or window.

 

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The "Viewing Profile" page.

 

Look all the way to the far-right

and near the top of the page

but under the page-top-header,

and just below the Google ads

for a button marked "Edit My Profile".

 

- Click the button marked "Edit My Profile".

 

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The "Your Options" page.

 

At the far-left near the top,

find the heading that reads "Your Options"

with three tabs under it labeled

"Settings", "Forums", and "Profile".

 

- Click the 'tab' labeled "Profile"

if it is Not already high-lighted.

 

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The "Your Options" page:

and with Tab: "Profile".

 

Under the heading "Your Options"

and also under the three tabs labeled

"Settings", "Forums", and "Profile", ..

 

See the left navigation menu

"Change Profile Information".

 

Of the five left navigation menu choices, ..

 

- Click the left navigation menu choice

"Change Avatar".

 

That will open the

"Your Avatar Settings" page.

 

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Note: The "Change Photo"

left navigation menu link is

for the image displayed on your profile page

and is Not for changing the avatar image

that displays at the top and to the left

of all of your posts.

 

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The "Your Avatar Settings" page.

 

Under the right side heading

"Your image avatars", ..

 

- Click the "Browse" button

to be able to navigate around

your computer system to find

the image you want to use.

 

That opens an additional window labeled

"File Upload".

 

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The "File Upload" window.

 

Use the buttons in the "File Upload" window

to navigate to the folder

on your computer containing

the image you want to use.

 

Either..

 

1. Double-Click the image-file-name;

 

.. Or..

 

2. Click the image-file-name once,

and click the button "Open".

 

This takes you back

to the "Your Avatar Settings" page.

 

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The "Your Avatar Settings" page.

 

You may want to experiment with the

"Width" and "Height" settings

by entering numbers,

or leave these boxes blank.

 

- Click the button "Save Changes".

 

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Edited June 24, 2010 by zzR

[Mal]

Nice tutorial, thank you.

 

Moved to tech support for futer reference.

[TheSongsofDistantEarth]

I always seem to have my photos narrowed horizontally. How to fix?

[Mal]

can you drop in an example "photo" into this thread?

 

I know things display a bit different in IE, Chrome and Firefox.

[zzR]

I always seem to have my photos narrowed horizontally. How to fix?

 

Your Avatar image is presently based

on an image that has a size of

Width = 640 pixels & Height = 480 pixels,

and is 51,887 bytes.

 

I can Not get a copy

of your original image

to upload from my computer

for use as an avatar

although it is less than

the requirement posted

that it be no larger than

90 Kila-Bytes.

 

Since that original image

had a pixel size greatly exceeding

the posted recommended size of

125 (w) x 125 (h),

I assume then that large pixel counts

prevent image uploading from a computer

even when the size is less than 90kB.

 

Therefore I am guessing

that you originally added your avatar

by using a URL online image link.

 

In any case, your base image

of size 640x480 is being reduced

to 125x125 automatically

but proportionately.

 

If you enter "125" into the "Width" box,

and enter "94" into the "Height" box,

you image will display

in the same proportions as your original.

 

640/480 = 125/94

 

- Chris

Edited June 24, 2010 by zzR

[TheSongsofDistantEarth]

Excellent. I will give it a try, thanks!

[pilot]

My old avatar that I first uploaded keeps resetting itself.

I have followed these instructions and met the specs. Templates do work, but whatever I upload from computer it reverts to the old one.

[Apech]

My old avatar that I first uploaded keeps resetting itself.

I have followed these instructions and met the specs. Templates do work, but whatever I upload from computer it reverts to the old one.

 

If you post your new avatar I will try to change it for you (no promises though!).

[pilot]

thanks Apech,

just noticed the new one in, so there must be a delay by the time the new one shows up.

[Apech]

thanks Apech,

just noticed the new one in, so there must be a delay by the time the new one shows up.

 

OK! A result.