topic Re: own picture as avatar in Community Site Feedback

own picture as avatar

community — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:36:23 GMT

My own pic has sudenly gone and been replaced by a silly "red cross" in my profile and it therefore shows a "silly red cross" by my posts.
why is that?
I have been back to the setup of my profile and entered the correct location of my pic from my folders...to no avail

Re: own picture as avatar

Oldjim — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:59:59 GMT

the folder fuji isn't accessible
also the correct address is http://www.music2myears.plus.com/ and you missed out the www

Re: own picture as avatar

pierre_pierre — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:24:12 GMT

which probably means that he was fed up with the thousands of access to his pics, one of aur forum a while back had an airbus picture get to the top of Google search for the same reason

Re: own picture as avatar

community — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:27:03 GMT

Quote from: Oldjim
the folder fuji isn't accessible
also the correct address is http://www.music2myears.plus.com/ and you missed out the www

By chance I see that you have moved my post about the pic....Can I assume that I will be informed about it?

Re: own picture as avatar

Oldjim — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:32:38 GMT

When we move posts we don't normally send a notification - so the answer is no although there is a move post where it started from

Re: own picture as avatar

pierre_pierre — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:34:20 GMT

if you look where it was you will see the new address there http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,90303.0.html
best is to copy the picture to your machine, then add it from there, I have had trouble this week, for some reason it didnt like JPG, converted it to GIF, no problem

Re: own picture as avatar

community — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:40:28 GMT

You will see above that my avatar pic has reappeared now...but strangely only after I changed it from gif to jpg!!!
It's a funny old world isn'it?
dick:quote

Re: own picture as avatar

Oldjim — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:41:42 GMT

not to me it hasn't

Re: own picture as avatar

pierre_pierre — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:42:42 GMT

nor me

Re: own picture as avatar

community — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:46:05 GMT

Stranger and stranger!
I wonder if it's because my PC understands the url because it has it on file? and nobody else but me therefore can see it????
By the way pierre, there is a silly red star where your avatar should be on my PC!

Re: own picture as avatar

hadden — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:38:32 GMT

I notice that the address has some "\" in it. Try changing these to "/".
By the way, I wouldn't normally see the image myself, as I disable any images not loaded from the community server. So, I only see avatars that are loaded into the user's profile.

Re: own picture as avatar

community — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:57:16 GMT

@JohnJ
Although the url contained some "\" 's, it still successfully brought up the pic anyway.
However, I have changed the "\" 's to"/" 's as per your suggestion,and still the pic shows OK.
So it seems that on my monitor it doesnt matter which formula I use.
BUT
Has my avatar now appeared to all?

Re: own picture as avatar

Strat — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:58:51 GMT

It has for me

Re: own picture as avatar

hadden — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:06:26 GMT

The lack of appearance may depend upon the browser being used.
Internet Exploder (as it is really part of Windows) will understand "\" more readily than standard browsers like Firefox.

Re: own picture as avatar

pierre_pierre — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:11:31 GMT

not here on Firefox, is mine showng any one?

Re: own picture as avatar

pierre_pierre — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:15:49 GMT

image info for the two
Communities show size as 0x0

Re: own picture as avatar

jelv — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:23:02 GMT

Viewing the source code for the blank box where your avatar should be is:

<img src="http://www.music2myears.plus.com%5Chtdocs%5Cfishing.jpg" alt="" class="avatar" border="0">

%5C is a back slash
Replacing the back slashes with forward slashes we see:

Even if it did work it's no good considering the forum rules:
[quote=http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,218.0.html#post_avatar]Avatars and Signatures
The forum moderators reserve the right to ask any member to change their Avatar and/or Signature, should they feel that it is inappropriate, or does not comply with the following guidelines;
Avatar size should be limited to 80 x 80 pixels and a maximum file size of 40kB
Yours is 1280 x 960 and 321kB

Re: own picture as avatar

community — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:47:00 GMT

OK understood but I haven't been asked to change it by the supreme commanders!
BTW, why is it that I cannot see your avatar in your post, only the dreaded silly red star!!!

Re: own picture as avatar

jelv — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:54:56 GMT

There's a very simple explanation!

Re: own picture as avatar

pierre_pierre — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:24:29 GMT

that doesnt explain why he is suddenly seing red stars for yours and mine
Community, what browser are you using?