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Post by Rennie Ellen on May 21, 2008 1:51:57 GMT -5
Cando, A familiar face!!!! I don't really see the sense of signing up for photobucket or flickr for just ONE picture. I have a profile on America Online with pictures but I don't think it has a URL or whatever you call it. I guess I shall have to remain catless. Rennie (I miss my coffee cup pic )
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Post by cando on May 21, 2008 2:06:23 GMT -5
Rennie, I'm sorry to hear about your friend and how shocked you were about the old website. I think most of us were, but you know the website was getting harder & harder to post on and was becoming a source of frustration. Pigpen had ss for many years & I appreciate all she has done & how hard she's worked to keep things going, etc.
I don't know if you saw Pigpen's sticky at the top of the main forum on the other website or not. I tried the LiveJournal that it mentioned for us to go to, but it was so difficult to even sign up there. Took me forever and I felt especially uncomfortable on that website...even took a different name... Truly, we have chat here & this site seems very user friendly. (except for the avatar thing).
I see that KrazyKatLady beat me to the punch...but I basically sent the same info to you in a pm. She explained it better in her post above... & as she said it will only be temporary as long as it is on the ss website.
I'll bet you can do it from the pictures you already have online with AOL. You will have to make sure the picture is the right size & then find the "properties"...usually a right click of the mouse will help with that when it is held over the picture... I'm not too good at explaining this, but I'm sure someone else will explain better or correct me if I made a mistake.
Again, welcome. CD
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Post by Rennie Ellen on May 21, 2008 2:09:11 GMT -5
cando and krazykatlady, YOU'RE THE GREATEST!!!!! Thanks a lot!
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Post by Admin on May 21, 2008 5:51:43 GMT -5
Rennie, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend! I know I was very shook up the day I found out about ss, and you are dealing with a double whammy. here is a coffee cup to cheer you up: if you use quick reply it is : D without the space. (i updated all the skins with it)
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Post by skatters on May 21, 2008 12:35:46 GMT -5
Oh my... I can not get my avatar to work for anything! Here is the link to my peeved cat that I am using: pics.livejournal.com/skatters/pic/0000228dI resized it so that it is 80x80 pixels at live journal, and also specified it under my profile here. I made sure that my live journal scrapbook is open to the public. Under 'Account Preferences' I selected 'show avatars'. I can see the avatars provided by the forums... I have messed with this for well over an hour. Anybody have anymore suggestions? ETA: Ok, I figured out that if use photobucket rather than livejournal, it works fine. I must have been screwing up the location of the photo. (Though I do think I tried all the locations, multiple times!)
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Post by angelinahedgehog on May 21, 2008 14:32:22 GMT -5
skatters, I believe that the problem with LJ photos is that the URLs don't end with a recognizable image suffix like .jpg or .gif. So you had the URL correct, but proboards80.com didn't trust it to be an image, because it doesn't *look* like an image, darn it!
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Post by pegasus48 on May 24, 2008 13:52:44 GMT -5
test to see if avatar will come up
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Post by angelinahedgehog on May 24, 2008 15:31:39 GMT -5
pegasus48, I'm seeing a dot that's about the same overall color as the image you want to use, which makes me think that it's an image size issue. It looks like you set the image height and width to two. Go back to takeonestepatatime.proboards80.com/index.cgi?action=modifyprofile, change the height and width to 100, and we'll see if that takes care of it.
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Post by pegasus48 on May 25, 2008 0:43:19 GMT -5
Thank you, thank you AngelinaHedgehog!! Finally, I have my avatar back!! (I know it's silly, but I missed having it!!)
Thanks also to dear Lion for her excellent, detailed advice, and to others who gave me additional info.
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