Comments on: Tweaking Your Blog: Adding Avatars http://rickbeckman.org/tweaking-your-blog-adding-avatars/ Here We Go Again Again Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:06:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Rick Beckman http://rickbeckman.org/tweaking-your-blog-adding-avatars/#comment-2242 Rick Beckman Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:27:58 +0000 http://rickbeckman.org/?p=442#comment-2242 <a href='#comment-8407' class='comment_link' rel="nofollow">Satish Talim</a>: You're not doing anything wrong. When it lets you crop, if you select the whole image, your gravatar will look great at 80 (or 125) pixels square, whichever you use, but on sites which make use of larger gravatar images, your image will appear pixelated. It's best to choose an image of at least 512 pixels square from which to crop, that way your gravatar looks great no matter what image size sites use. Satish Talim: You’re not doing anything wrong. When it lets you crop, if you select the whole image, your gravatar will look great at 80 (or 125) pixels square, whichever you use, but on sites which make use of larger gravatar images, your image will appear pixelated. It’s best to choose an image of at least 512 pixels square from which to crop, that way your gravatar looks great no matter what image size sites use.

]]> By: Satish Talim http://rickbeckman.org/tweaking-your-blog-adding-avatars/#comment-2241 Satish Talim Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:29:52 +0000 http://rickbeckman.org/?p=442#comment-2241 I have my avatar of sizes 80x80 and 125x125. When I upload either to gravatar.com, it shows an expanded image and then asks me to crop the same - it just does not work. Any idea what I am doing wrong? I have my avatar of sizes 80x80 and 125x125. When I upload either to gravatar.com, it shows an expanded image and then asks me to crop the same — it just does not work. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

]]> By: HOW TO ADD YOUR PICTURE TO YOUR ONLINE COMMENTS : A Greener Tea http://rickbeckman.org/tweaking-your-blog-adding-avatars/#comment-2237 HOW TO ADD YOUR PICTURE TO YOUR ONLINE COMMENTS : A Greener Tea Sat, 17 May 2008 23:13:17 +0000 http://rickbeckman.org/?p=442#comment-2237 [...] Your avatar is just a picture of yourself. Rick Beckman, who blogs at Kingdom Geek, has a gift for explaining complicated things in simpler ways. He describes it well in this post about adding avatars to your blog. [...] […] Your avatar is just a picture of yourself. Rick Beckman, who blogs at Kingdom Geek, has a gift for explaining complicated things in simpler ways. He describes it well in this post about adding avatars to your blog. […]

]]> By: Rick Beckman http://rickbeckman.org/tweaking-your-blog-adding-avatars/#comment-2240 Rick Beckman Wed, 07 May 2008 16:45:59 +0000 http://rickbeckman.org/?p=442#comment-2240 <a href='#comment-5352' class='comment_link' rel="nofollow">christine</a>: Looks like you have it just fine on your site according to my instructions... Problem was, my instructions were wrong; take a look at the "Update" portion at the end of the above post. Once you swap out that bit of code for the proper code, avatars should start working on your site. Also, yeah, I am pretty much self-taught. What I know about Web design and programming I know only because I've picked it up trying to solve problems for my own sites. I'd love to have the time & money for actual, formal training for various things, but that probably won't happen -- nor is it that big a deal. christine: Looks like you have it just fine on your site according to my instructions… Problem was, my instructions were wrong; take a look at the “Update” portion at the end of the above post. Once you swap out that bit of code for the proper code, avatars should start working on your site.

Also, yeah, I am pretty much self-taught. What I know about Web design and programming I know only because I’ve picked it up trying to solve problems for my own sites. I’d love to have the time & money for actual, formal training for various things, but that probably won’t happen — nor is it that big a deal.

]]> By: christine http://rickbeckman.org/tweaking-your-blog-adding-avatars/#comment-2239 christine Wed, 07 May 2008 15:22:24 +0000 http://rickbeckman.org/?p=442#comment-2239 TA DAAAA !! It works on your site!!!! OK, I'm almost there. I'm going to work on it. Are you self-taught or did you take a course to learn all this? I just noticed the CommentLuv thing. That must be a plugin. It's quite cool. Another item for the list. Latest from christine: <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EmpoweredAttraction/~3/284926794/" rel="nofollow">EMPOWERED MEANS OVER MYSELF</a> TA DAAAA !!

It works on your site!!!!

OK, I’m almost there. I’m going to work on it.

Are you self-taught or did you take a course to learn all this?

I just noticed the CommentLuv thing. That must be a plugin. It’s quite cool. Another item for the list.

Latest from christine: EMPOWERED MEANS OVER MYSELF

]]> By: christine http://rickbeckman.org/tweaking-your-blog-adding-avatars/#comment-2238 christine Wed, 07 May 2008 15:19:27 +0000 http://rickbeckman.org/?p=442#comment-2238 Excellent post! Answered a few more question, like what if you want to change the picture. You don't mention it above (unless I missed it, or got the instructions wrong), but are you supposed to follow that Gravatar link on the Discussion page to create the image? I did everything, but no Gravatar shows up on my site. So I'm trying on your site. Does it take time for them to propagate or anything like that? I pasted the get_avatar code where you showed me ; then I tried it right above the comment_text line, but still no picture. Can you tell where I messed up? Excellent post! Answered a few more question, like what if you want to change the picture.
You don’t mention it above (unless I missed it, or got the instructions wrong), but are you supposed to follow that Gravatar link on the Discussion page to create the image?
I did everything, but no Gravatar shows up on my site. So I’m trying on your site. Does it take time for them to propagate or anything like that?
I pasted the get_avatar code where you showed me ; then I tried it right above the comment_text line, but still no picture.
Can you tell where I messed up?

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