How To Use Avatars And Signatures

[Mazzlow]

This thread is set up for (mostly) the newer members, just to help you guys out with using signatures and avatars. This thread will explain everything you need to know in order to use an avatar or signature (shortened: sig)

let's start with the easiest part, the

AVATARS

First of all, get yourself a nice image that you like you use as an avatar. Make sure you resize it to 120 by 120 pixels, otherwise you aren't able to upload it on the forum.

Resizing images isn't hard, you can do it with every image program, even MSpaint.

You also have to notice the file size, it can't be bigger than 6KB, if it's more.. then too bad, you can't use it. Saving images as .jpeg , .gif or .png always helps to reduce the file size, so make sure it's saved in one of those formats.

Once you have your avatar all done, go to the forums, and click on the

Account

button, that will lead you to your Profile.

When you are there, click on the

Change Info

button, that will lead you to your profile settings.

Scroll down a bit, untill you see the Avatar Controll Panel on the bottom.

Now, you can either choose an avatar that you have hosted on a website, or a avatar in the forums pre-set gallaery. We're going for the custom avatar, of course.

Coppy and paste the URL of a avatar that you have uploaded to a website, (I will cover how to do this in the 'SIGNATURES' part of this tutorial) click on 'Submit' to finish the process.

You're avatar is now uploaded and done, everyone can now see it under your username at all your posts.

that wasn't that hard, was it

this might be a little harder, using signatures.

SIGNATURES

firsts off all again, the signature size limit is 475 pixels wide by 125 pixels high. anything bigger then this size... and the forum automatically rejects it, as it's set in the rules. Also, make sure that you saved .jpeg , .gif or .png again, since it reduces the file size alot.

so.. the signature. Once you're done creating your signature and you've saved it, you need to upload it somewhere. some random sites that upload images for free are imagetown, picturetrail, imageshack, and photobucket. There are more, see which one you like. (you should also use these sites to upload avatars, how to use avatars is covered up there in the 'AVATAR' section)

Every site has a slight differend uploading system, but they all end up to be the same so it shouldn't be a problem to upload your signature.

Once you've uploaded it, Copy and paste the URL of the image. this can be done by right-clicking on the image itself. Go to 'Properties' and copy the URL that has been given. (it says 'Location' for Mozilla users)

Once you've copied the URL, click on the

Account

button, that will lead you to your Profile.

When you are there, click on the Change Info

button, that will lead you to your profile settings. Scroll down a bit, and there's a box with 'My Signature:' written at the left side. Paste the URL of your signature in that box, and add

let's pretend that this is the signature you want to use:

'>

the URL for this image is this:

In order to see the image without seeing the URL, you need to place it between image tags which can be done like this (copy and paste the upcoming URL with tags to see the image)

[img=http://www.mvpmods.com/images/logo.png]

if you change the URL that between these image tags with the URL of your signature, then you can see it pretty easy huh?

place the URL of your signature with tags in the signature box, and click on 'Submit' on the bottom.

Now, you're signature is ready for everone to be seen, under all of your posts.

I really hope this helps you guys out, if you don't know how to do it. If there's still questions, post them here, otherwise, don't ruin this thread with posts like 'oh man that's aload of text you got there' and stuff. It took me 30 minutes to write this so keep this thread clean alright? Thanks

(A Stickie Would Be Nice)

[Trues]

Nice job Maz. :wtg:

[Mazzlow]

Nice job Maz. :wtg:

Thanks

I realized that every so often i see people asking how to use sigs/avs or someone trys to put the location of the sig on the computer in their sig box (like C:/Owners Documents/Sigs/1.jpg) and that doesnt work, so we can now just point them in the direction of here

[ronmexico]

Thanks a lot, I am just testing to see if it worked. If it did, then thanks a lot.

[ronmexico]

Alright, now it works, and here is the "thanks a lot" that I promised.

[Bama]

uh...Ron, that sig says NYM06 on it...So it was made for him. Not that you can't use it or anything...just saying.

[Edam]

I'm guessing that eliminating avatars and sigs will help with the bandwidth problems, at least for now.

[ronmexico]

O im sorry, what he wrote is, I made this one for fun, so I figured since his name was BlueJay, the NYM06 was just part of the design...

[Yankee4Life]

Nice thread Mazz, I hope the new guys can really learn from this.

[BigRog]

hey when i try to upload my avatar it says that it is an animation and mvpmods does not support aniamtion. my avatar is a jpeg. what up? this is my avatar

[ronmexico]

Thats because mvpmods doesn't support animations. No flash atleast.

[MarkB]

Now that is strange.

[JoeyMcM93]

Now that is strange.

My thoughts exactly.

Nice thread Maz. Very detailed and will really help people out!

[BigRog]

Thats because mvpmods doesn't support animations. No flash atleast.

my avatar is not animated

[Hokieboy]

enter this in as your avatar. make sure its in the link to offsite url.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f374/hokieboy/Williscopy.png

hope that helped.

[ronmexico]

Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought the problem was that it was animated, oops.