How to add your own Avatar

Start by making your Avatar by clicking http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/

1 - Go to the Board Index.

2 - Go to the User Control Panel (UCP) by clicking on the link, located under the forum banner.

3 - You will get a new page with on the left hand side a vertical menu with several 'tabs', "Overview" will be opened when you log in to your UCP, but the second tab is called "Profile", click on it. It will open then you have to click on "Edit Avatar", click on it.

4 - A new page is opened, the first thing is: "Current Image". It shows your current Image, if you don't have one yet, its a grey block with a cross through it. The maximum and minimum dimensions are given under "Currenty Image" to, same for the Maximum Filesize.

5 - If you do have one already but you want to remove it, you can check the field under your current Avatar that says "Delete image" then press Submit

6 - Upload from your Machine: You can choose an image and upload it to the board's FTP.

7 - Link off-site: Here you can insert the link to an image already on the internet, which you like to have as an avatar.
If "Upload from your machine" isn't enabled, but "link off-site" is you can upload your image from your machine to any free image hoster and post the link in here.

8 - Avatar Dimensions: You can resize the current avatar, or the one you're about to add. You need to fill in the width x height giving in pixels (px). Leave it 0 x 0 to leave the size as it originaly was.

9 - Then you see a button: [Display Gallary] press it and you see the pre-installed avatars you can choose from, if you don't got an avatar of your own.

10 - If you've filt it in the way you want it, press Submit.

11 - You've now succesfully edited/added your own avatar!