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Gyro



Joined: 19 Feb 2002
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 10:09 am Reply with quote
I can't stand the thought of member running around with no avaters. Therefore I've taken the liberty of making some for you. However before you use them you must beg at my feet. MWUHAHAHAHA! Just kidding, pick the one you like and be happy Very Happy.

More are coming soon!
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dudesup



Joined: 14 Jan 2002
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 11:16 am Reply with quote
How do I put an avatar? Do I have to upload it to a geocities site Confused
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 11:46 am Reply with quote
dudesup wrote:

How do I put an avatar? Do I have to upload it to a geocities site :?


Go to "Profile" on the right-hand bar. Scroll down to the Avatar Control Panel at the bottom.

Type in the URL of the avatar you want to use.. it needs to be an image no greater than 80x80 pixels and 6kB large. Those avatars, for example, appear to be fine.

So, if you wanted to use, oh, say Gyro's Ryoko picture, you would right click on the image, and go down to "Properties" (Assuming you use IE5.x or greater). Highlight the URL (http://imagehost.auctionwatch.com/preview/gy/gyro280/tm05.gif) and press Control-C (Copy). Then paste it in the "Link to Off-Site Avatar" box in your profile.

Of course, that means the bandwidth for the avatar is coming from Gyro's account on auctionwatch.com -- I suppose Auctionwatch is about as thrilled with off-site linking as we were about it.. that is to say, "Not very"...

Most people have a few mb of webspace on their ISP's server. @home, Adelphia, Universities, and almost all smaller ISPs and provide a small amount (5-10mb) of webspace for you to link things like these images. You just need to figure out where some space is, and how to access it. You can call your ISP to find out how to do this. :)
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Gyro



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 12:59 pm Reply with quote
I got a few more.

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Gyro



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2002 1:38 pm Reply with quote
I see dudesup is using my Sano avatar Very Happy.

I might have more for you guys later, but it depends on if I think you deserve them or not. Very Happy


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Vicious



Joined: 26 Jan 2002
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2002 4:27 pm Reply with quote
I've got good ol' Spiku for here, however....

*Grabs Space Ghost avatar for use on another forum*

Nifty :)
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Gyro



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2002 6:07 pm Reply with quote
Vicious wrote:

*Grabs Space Ghost avatar for use on another forum*

Nifty Smile

Thanks Very Happy. What other forum would that be?
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dudesup



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2002 7:01 pm Reply with quote
Yea, thanks for the avatars Gyro. Very Happy
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Tenchi



Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2002 7:06 pm Reply with quote
Sorry, dudesup, Geocities won't let you link to pics on Geocities sites from external pages. Try responding to an old article on Indymedia (a leftist so-called "anarchist" site that thinks removing any post, no matter how off-topic, constitutes "censorship") with a pic and then linking to that pic.
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dudesup



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2002 7:26 pm Reply with quote
Oh, no wonder my avatar didn't load. Stupid geocities Evil or Very Mad
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Vicious



Joined: 26 Jan 2002
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 24, 2002 11:58 pm Reply with quote
Gyro wrote:

Thanks :D. What other forum would that be?


Just a small forum nobody would really care about :)

As for the avatar linking dudesup, alternativly you could rename it sano043.txt to trick geocities into letting you link it and it should work just fine. Some forums won't let you use the .txt extention for linking to a avatar though. And of course if you use up your allocated bandwidth your avatar will go temperarily down until you get it back, though I have no idea how much geocities gives you so it may not be a problem if you just use your site to link stuff and nobody visits it.

If you give up on geocities though boomspeed.com is a good choice for hosting pics. They need a valid email address, but I signed up about two months ago and I havn't been spammed with any junk mail.(New email addy sense @home went under, so I'm completly clean spamwise)
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Nixale



Joined: 29 Mar 2002
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 29, 2002 6:46 pm Reply with quote
I love you, really. Very Happy
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Gyro



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 03, 2002 7:32 pm Reply with quote
Nixale wrote:

I love you, really. Very Happy
Yes, yes, everyone does Very Happy.
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