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#25376 11/13/03 03:01 AM
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I have looked everywhere on this forum to find a way to post my pic as an avatar. But I can not seem to figure this out at all. Do I need to get a web site or something?
Other forums just let me put the photo up using a file from my hard drive, but Axioms will not let me.

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#25377 11/13/03 03:14 AM
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Yeah, you'll need a place to host your picture.


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#25378 11/13/03 05:11 AM
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How do I do that?

And why is it that Axiom's forum makes me have to do that?

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#25379 11/13/03 05:49 AM
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If ya ask nice, I can host the pic for you. Just e-mail me your image and I'll tell you the URL to put into your profile.

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#25380 11/13/03 11:23 AM
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I think that the other forums actually store the avatar for you, in any case it has to be on the 'net, not on your local drive.


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#25381 11/13/03 05:50 PM
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Just link to your avatar from another forum. They do store it somewhere. Usually you can get the link by going to that forum, mousing over the avatar and right clicking the checking "properties" for the pic. Copy and paste.

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#25382 11/13/03 07:13 PM
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I think I have done it! Thanks for the help!

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#25383 11/13/03 07:34 PM
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Your name seems to fit. I can just see you holding a pair of scissors and making snippy noises in the air with them.

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#25384 11/14/03 12:51 AM
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This is only a test...

Geez Frank, great tip about using the avatar stored on another forum! Can somebody explain to me why that method (getting a pic from another website) would be better for Axiom forum administration (and performance) than simply allowing them to be stored here?

Last edited by tomtuttle; 11/14/03 12:54 AM.

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#25385 11/14/03 01:13 AM
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Storing avatars on the Axiom server would increase their bandwidth usage. When you link to an Avatar -- or any image stored on a different site -- it's your computer that has to go fetch it, not the Axiom webserver.

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