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Modifying Your Profile (Avatar, Signature, Skin)
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Modifying Your Profile (Avatar, Signature, Skin)
Post by WunderBunny on Sept 9, 2006, 9:54pm

How to Load an Avatar

An avatar is the small image placed under your username whenever you make a post.

Select an image. There are many web sites with free avatars. Geekgurl recommended these:
Put the cursor on the image you want.
Click with right button of mouse
Select Save Image As. or Save Picture As.
Save the image on your hard drive and remember where you put it.
Go to http://www.imageshack.us/ and upload the image.
Click in the Embeddable Code: for Friends box. The code will be highlighted.
Press CTRL-C to copy the code.
Login to Paging Dr.
Click MY PROFILE.
Click Modify Profile:
Scroll down to:
Click in the box next to Avatar URL:
Press CTRL-V to paste your code.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Press

Wikipedia's article on forum avatars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_avatar

ScienceGeek's Animated Avatars
Post by WunderBunny on Sept 10, 2006, 3:49pm

If the above instructions seem like too much trouble, you can use one of the avatars from the Paging Dr catalogue. ScienceGeek has kindly allowed us to install his animated avatars in our catalogue.

If you don't know how to apply an avatar to your profile, please read all of these instructions first:

Click on MY PROFILE.
Click on
Scroll down the page to
Click twice on the avatar box to highlight it.
Use your mouse or up/down arrow keys to view each avatar. You don't have to open the drop down list to view the avatars. You may have to wait for the next avatar in the list to load.
You must delete the URL of your existing avatar:
Scroll to the bottom of the screen.
Press

Samples of ScienceGeek's work:

How to Load a Userbar in Your Signature
Post by WunderBunny on Sept 10, 2006, 3:57pm

Userbars are small images (350 pixels x 19 pixels) placed in your signature. For example:

[image]

The coding for this bar is as follows:

[image]

That is, put the image URL inside the [ img][/img] tags.

Then put the image tags inside the [ center][/center] tags.

If you wish to find a userbar for your signature, try the following web sites:

http://ubanimator.com/ - click on userbar archive - seems to have the best collection.
http://userbars.org/ - you need to find a host for these images.
http://userbars.com/
http://www.usersigs.com/site/
Or build your own userbar with Photoshop. Here is a tutorial: http://www.tutorialtomb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=317 Some of the above links also have tutorials.
Fireworks Tutorial: http://www.ddboard.com/forum/member-advertising/2217-fireworks-userbar-tutorial.html

If you would like to combine multiple userbars, create an animated userbar like this:

[image]

To create an animated userbar: http://ubanimator.com/

Wikipedia's article on userbars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userbar

Counting Down the Days with a Ticker
Post by WunderBunny on Dec 3, 2006, 11:55am

A ticker is an image which displays the number of days to a special occasion. It adjusts itself every day. The following ticker counts the number of days till GAMSAT 2007:

[image]

To create a ticker for your signature:

Go to www.tickerfactory.com.
Follow the prompts to choose a ruler, slider, event name and date.
Copy the code in the box marked bb Code
Go to your profile.
Paste the code in the Signature: box.
Note: This code also has [ url][/url] tags wrapped around the [ img][/img] tags. You only need to paste the code between the [ img][/img] tags. You may delete the [ url][/url] tags, if you wish.

For example, the coding for the above ticker is:

[ center][ img]http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10501;41/st/20070324/e/GAMSAT+2007/dt/16/k/79ba/event.png[/img][/center]

If you wish to use this code, remove the space characters from [ center][ img].

Re: Modifying Your Profile (Avatars, Signatures)
Post by khush on Dec 3, 2006, 8:14pm

coolio, ty .. always wanted how to do that

Re: Modifying Your Profile (Avatars, Signatures)
Post by kitty on Dec 4, 2006, 3:36pm

is there any way of actually getting it on your desktop/ wallpaper?

Re: Modifying Your Profile (Avatars, Signatures)
Post by WunderBunny on Dec 4, 2006, 5:37pm

Have you tried to right-mouse-click on the image. First, you would have to generate an image and display it in your browser. To display it in your browser, paste the part which begins with http: up to png into the address space of your browser.

Re: Modifying Your Profile (Avatars, Signatures)
Post by kitty on Dec 4, 2006, 9:01pm

thanks wunderbunny!
i went to set as background item

it will remind me to study when i turn on the computer, not after I started procrastinating on paging dr......

Re: Modifying Your Profile (Avatars, Signatures)
Post by bubblebee on Dec 8, 2006, 4:23pm

thanks wb! now i'm tickered too!!!

Forum Skin (Colour Scheme)
Post by WunderBunny on Jan 1, 2007, 2:17pm

If you would like to change the forum skin:

Click MY PROFILE.
Click Modify Profile:
Scroll down to:

Select from:

White	Original colours (white panels, grey highlighting, default folder, icons, gold, green stars)
Blue	Blue background gradient. Blue bars. Off white window background. Blue highlighting. Blue folder icons. Orange, teal blue, blue stars.
Brown	Colours to match Paging Dr homepage. Green background gradient. Brown bars. Beige and tan window background. Salmon pink and wheat highlights. Brown scroll folder icons. Ranking hearts instead of stars.
Purple	Purple background gradient. Purple bars. Snow white and linen white window background. Purple highlights. Blue folder icons. Purple stars.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Press

Re: Modifying Your Profile (Avatar, Signature, Ski
Post by kj on Jan 1, 2007, 4:40pm

WB you have outdone yourself!!!!!

Thanks for the hard and time consuming work you do!!

The Brown skin is awesome

Thanks