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[BedfordRL]

How do you change your avatar from the default one that looks like the old Granada TV symbol, on its side .
I've tried but cannot see how.
many thanks.

 

[WoodlandsCamper]

See Sticky here.

 

[BedfordRL]

Ooo, Ta muchly.

 

[BedfordRL]

Bah !.
Forty five minutes later and all I get is "Whoops ,something went wrong".
Think I'm sticking with the sideways Granada logo.

 

[emmerson]

Bedford, I'm intrigued by your name. If I'm right, the RL was the follow on from the Bedford QL 4x4,which the garage in which I started work had as a breakdown truck.I used to drive it round the yard when I was 15!

 

[BedfordRL]

Yes I've got a 1956 RL.
I bought her 15 years ago after a deal for a Scammel Explorer fell through.
She has been neglected recently and is this years project, she needs a bit of welding , the master cylinder revamped after I didn't do it properly last time.
She has an adaptor from the towing pintle so she can tow a caravan and we have in the past done just that.

 

[tenpole]

So every other forum I have been on allows you to set your avatar within its site except this one. I am not signing up on another site.

 

[Hutch]

Tenpole , some clever chap or Lady will come up with the answer soon, , just keep the thread coming to the top until DD sorts it out.
Hutch.

 

[WoodlandsCamper]

Sorry Hutch, there's nothing to sort out. If tenpole wants to display an avatar then he needs to sign up with the third-party supplier. If he doesn't wish to sign up with them then he doesn't get to display an avatar. Simples.

 

[Hutch]

Sorry WC, after re reading rhe thread, I understand. PC's Website is not the best to use but gets my brain cells working.

 

[tenpole]

My Avatar

 

[Dustydog]

Photobucket is free and has a privacy button. Why not use it B)

 

[Thedoog]

I have just used Parksy post to use gravatar and by jove it works, just got to find a decent picture now.

 

[BedfordRL]

How does one "associate " ones avatar with their email address ?.
I've got a photobucket account but see no way of changing my avatar to anything other than the default .

 

[WoodlandsCamper]

How does one "associate " ones avatar with their email address ?.
I've got a photobucket account but see no way of changing my avatar to anything other than the default .

See here for avatars. You need a Gravatar account not a Photobucket account.

 

[BedfordRL]

I tried that and it didn't work.
Must be something I'm doing wrong, blooming modern technology!

 

[WoodlandsCamper]

Yes, must be finger trouble as Thedoog managed OK as he said:

"I have just used Parksy post to use gravatar and by jove it works, just got to find a decent picture now."

 

[Sproket]

I have just logged into Gavatar to change my profile picture i upload it strait from my pc and find that it works ok .... it's really easy to use

 

[Parksy]

I tried that and it didn't work.
Must be something I'm doing wrong, blooming modern technology!

The most common problem with a photo avatar is that it's too big. If you can crop it to fit the picture usually loads ok.

 

[BedfordRL]

Whoohoo, it worked.
Thanks everyone.

 

[Thedoog]

Just updated my avatar should show our first ever new van. Finding out how everything works is fun, gave up trying to fit the Al-ko wheel clamp but have done now we at home on the drive. Truma control panel gave us a few problems but eventually I think we have cracked it.
The LED lighting in the van is something else looks brilliant. Roll on Cornwall on Monday.

Steve

 

[Thedoog]

oops I think this should be it

 

[DrZhivago]

So every other forum I have been on allows you to set your avatar within its site except this one. I am not signing up on another site.

My thoughts exacty. But I went to the Gravatar site and experimentally clicked the "Create your own Gravatar" button. This took me to a wordpress.com website and they wanted me to sign up too. Who the heck are Wordpress, and where does this trail end? Looks like an email harvesting excercise to me, and a solution looking for a problem. Did someone say this is meant to be simpler?

From the Gravatar site "Globally Recognised ... Supported by a Kajilliom Websites" LoL, I've never seen another site that uses them! Anyway I use different email address for different websites, and usually differrent avatars. Nor do I want people to bring up all my personal details if they click on my avatar, or rather only ones that I control.

Woodlands Camper wrote :-

"If he doesn't wish to sign up with [Gravatar] then he doesn't get to display an avatar."

Me too, with raspberries to Gravatar LoL! This explains all those boring "Lazy Gs".

 

[paws]

I feel the same way.... No "Gravatar" for me!