The Gravatar Logo
Gravatar, It’s the Globally Recognized Avatar System.
Basically – sign up on their website – Gravatar, and you can then upload an icon to their servers, with your name and email address.
What’s the point in this I hear you say? Well that’s the beauty of it, all you need to now do is post a comment on a blog or forum that supports Gravatar. WHEN you do this, the blog in question checks Gravatar to see if you are signed up, if you are – then the blog will bring through your Icon.
UKwins Avatar
I guess this saves loads of time, and allows you to have a recognizeable icon everywhere you visit – Globally! – woohooooo Absolutely Amazing.
Avatars – this is what the icons are called.
That’s all well and good, however – you surely now need to create one? yes? Thought so!
If you haven’t got your own photoshop program then the best (that I certainly suggest) is MadAvatar
IF you have your own photoshop program, then make an image with 125px x 125px dimensions. Then you can just upload that to the Gravar system. The avatars are actually displayed at 80 x 80, so just quickly that your image doesn’t look out of place shrunk!
Another really funky function of the Gravatar System is that each Gravatar is rated with an MPAA – style age recommendation, which allows blog owners to control the content of the Gravatars displayed on their site, ps the Current level set for UKwins’ is set to Adult, so we can “potentially” see all levels! (I look forward to seeing them)!
envybloo 08:10 on 29 September 2009 Permalink
This is brilliant.Love it.Just signed up to it.Thankyou:)