There's two ways.

Use one of ours, or use one of yours.

The next two posts discuss these options in detail.

Andrew

This is the easiest way:

Choose "UserCP"
Choose Avatar Gallery - it's most of the way down on the left side.
Choose one of the folders in the pane, like "Default".
A bunch of avatars pop up. Choose one and click "Update Avatar"

You're done.

This is the easiest way:

Choose "UserCP"
Choose "Edit Avatar Gallery"
Either
* type in the URL of an avatar hosted somewhere else
- or
* Click "Upload Avatar"

As long as your avatar fits our guidelines, you're done

Here's an avatar I prepared earlier:


[ Edited on 28-6-2005 by vanderaj ]

If you need to resize an avatar pic and the PC you are working from has no size editing software, this online one works.

http://online-image-resize.kategorie.cz/ 

trying myself - i'll get there but now I have five posts so should be able to u2u
finally

I resized mine to a tiny 80x64 and still says too big???


whats wrong

Hi,
Just trying to upload an avatar from my home comp, but getting this error:

Error
The ./images/avatars/uploads directory is not writeable, make sure to set the permissions ( CHMOD ) for the folder to 777 on your server.

Can anyone help please?

Cheers,
Mike.

I'm getting the same error message as zalman1 did.
I'm familiar with posting avatars at Samba, but something seems a little different, maybe even quirky about doing it here.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
ztnoo

I have the same error too, certainly means nothing to me. Any help on this??

hey can some help me get the little pic thingo working pplllleeeeaaaaassssseee ive been trying for day

never mind i got it.. it only took a few weeks.. lol

When you go there it says 100 x 100 and 8600 bytes. My picture is a JPG, 87 x 61 and 12.6 KB and it says its too big.
Rob...

Okay, I've adjusted it to 15k, 100x100 images. You should have better luck now.

thanks,
Andrew

Great, works now!
Thanks Andrew
Rob...

just seein if i got it right

This avatar program is messed up. I have my pic below 80 mx 80 pixels and it is still freaking out

i am an average joe at computers and this site was ment to help me but i cannot get to where im going as i have been in a vw club for 23 years but this site sux big time how about making it easyer to use im pissed off big time because i feel like u r makeing me jump through hoops.

Hi guys,

I am trying to upload a custom avatar. There is no "edit avatar gallery" option in my userCp, I assume I am meant to go to the "Edit Avatar" tab to do so.

My image is a jpg, 5.33 KB, 100x75px.

When I choose a file from the edit avatar tab and click "edit avatar" it takes me to a new screen with advertising messages- no errors.

Am I missing something?
Any help is most appreciated.

Am having the same problem as t_tuffnut . Aaaarrrrrgh!

Im also having problems, i am direct linking to an image on my photobucket and getting told it doesnt exist, is there something im doing wrong?

yeah im having heaps of trouble with this to

Do I Need to have a certain thread post status to edit an avatar???? cause uploading An Avatar just aint doing anything....my avatar is the required size and NADA !! i also right clicked and saved one of yours from your gallery and saved it on my PC and tried uploading it as well....and Huh...Nada...after i hit the Edit Avatar button to complete the process it goes to an ad on another page and just has select forum.....going back into CP again shows the default avatar still.


im.....??????

I Tried and tried the personal photo, and the online url and the avatar they just dont work...so....heres to my pink head with a question mark...i give up !!!

Guys it would be great if this can be sorted out. The problem has been there for some time now and I received no response to an email sent a month ago to ask if it could be fixed. I appreciate your time is voluntary but pretty soon everyone will have a pink head with a ?

Why cant I upload my avatar. It is a photo 80 x 60. Jpeg. I went to to edit avatar so delated my old one, then every time I go to uplaod my new avatar from my computer. Nothing! Ive tried hosting on another site and cutting pasting the link and its still doesnt work. Any advise?

theres a problem with the forum atm but vanderaj our tech support person has a family problem thats taking precedent atm. once its sorted he will get back to fixing this problem and the log in one.

Thanks Barls. Appreciate the info.

Thanks to Andrew for sorting out the site issues. Well done!!