Avatar and Picture Posting Instructions
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:35 am
Posting Avatars:
Step 1: Decide upon a avatar you like the best. People on the site have been known to make them or you can hunt up your own.
Step 2: Save it to your hard drive.
Step 3: Open an public account for uploading graphics and pictures such as Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com). You can use avatars you have saved to your harddrive and put them directly on RunningMania, but if it is larger than 80x80 pixels it won't work. Photobucket is nice and easy and also automatically gives you the html coding you need for your avatar/pictures to be seen on the site by all of us.
Step 4: Upload your avatar(saved on your harddrive) to your Photobucket account.
Step 5: Copy the coding from the last box (under your chosen pic) in Photobucket. You will know it as it had IMG in front of it.
Step 6: Go to RunningMania and upon logging in, go to your User Control Panel. You will find the icon for it at the TOP of the forums page.
Step 7: Once in that page click on the the avatar section. You can paste the code into the "Link from offsite avatar" box. [If you want to put pics or images in your signature, you can do that in the Signature section. Just paste the code from Photobucket or another web based photo hosting site into the Signature area.]
Step 8: Put in 120X400 as the size, insert your link to the off-site image and hit Submit. You will get a stretchy picture in your avatar that is 120X400, whatever the proportions are in your off-site image. So, now put 120 in the width, leave the height blank and hit Submit again.
Posting Pictures in the body of a post:
1. Create an account with one of the free picture-hosting website (photobucket.com is a good one)
2. Upload pictures from your computer to the picture-hosting site. It's pretty easy.
3. The site will assign each picture a URL. Copy and paste the URL into the body of your RunningMania post, "Select" the whole URL and click on the "Img" tag right above the post box. This will insert the appropriate tags before and after the URL in your message and ensure it shows up as a picture and not just a web link.
4. Photobucket allows you to resize images, since sometimes when you post them they end up MUCH bigger than you intended. Remember, the image has to be copied in each time someone clicks on the link. A good size is less than 500K.
You should be all set to go now. If you're not sure if people can see it, just ask. Most of us have had to do that at one point or another.
If you continue to have problems, you can always ask someone. Everyone can either point you in the right direction or help you along. Hope this helps you in at least some capacity.
[edited by klewlis to add the following visual aid by jgore.]
Step 1: Decide upon a avatar you like the best. People on the site have been known to make them or you can hunt up your own.
Step 2: Save it to your hard drive.
Step 3: Open an public account for uploading graphics and pictures such as Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com). You can use avatars you have saved to your harddrive and put them directly on RunningMania, but if it is larger than 80x80 pixels it won't work. Photobucket is nice and easy and also automatically gives you the html coding you need for your avatar/pictures to be seen on the site by all of us.
Step 4: Upload your avatar(saved on your harddrive) to your Photobucket account.
Step 5: Copy the coding from the last box (under your chosen pic) in Photobucket. You will know it as it had IMG in front of it.
Step 6: Go to RunningMania and upon logging in, go to your User Control Panel. You will find the icon for it at the TOP of the forums page.
Step 7: Once in that page click on the the avatar section. You can paste the code into the "Link from offsite avatar" box. [If you want to put pics or images in your signature, you can do that in the Signature section. Just paste the code from Photobucket or another web based photo hosting site into the Signature area.]
Step 8: Put in 120X400 as the size, insert your link to the off-site image and hit Submit. You will get a stretchy picture in your avatar that is 120X400, whatever the proportions are in your off-site image. So, now put 120 in the width, leave the height blank and hit Submit again.
Posting Pictures in the body of a post:
1. Create an account with one of the free picture-hosting website (photobucket.com is a good one)
2. Upload pictures from your computer to the picture-hosting site. It's pretty easy.
3. The site will assign each picture a URL. Copy and paste the URL into the body of your RunningMania post, "Select" the whole URL and click on the "Img" tag right above the post box. This will insert the appropriate tags before and after the URL in your message and ensure it shows up as a picture and not just a web link.
4. Photobucket allows you to resize images, since sometimes when you post them they end up MUCH bigger than you intended. Remember, the image has to be copied in each time someone clicks on the link. A good size is less than 500K.
You should be all set to go now. If you're not sure if people can see it, just ask. Most of us have had to do that at one point or another.
If you continue to have problems, you can always ask someone. Everyone can either point you in the right direction or help you along. Hope this helps you in at least some capacity.
[edited by klewlis to add the following visual aid by jgore.]
Has anyone else run into this problem.
