…or at least to your blog anyway.
One of the things we pride ourselves in doing at Blogivists.com is providing our bloggers with an audience. By now, you’ve noticed that every time you write a post, it appears on the right-hand side of the main page under “livefeed”. And – along with the title of your post, user name and number of comments – lies an avatar.
Ava-what!? Avatar!
An avatar, for those of you unaware, is simply a visual representation of your blog that accompanies your posts and – if you allow them – your comments. It’s a great way to shape your online identity and attract blog traffic in the process.
Now every blogger at blogivists has a default avatar (see left), but – as you can see – it’s quite boring, and thereby, quite lame. So the ball is in your court. Get yourself a personalized avatar right now!
- Once in admin, click on “Users” (located on the right-hand side of the page next to “Plug-ins”.
- Go to the “Your Avatar” option.
- Click on the “Browse” button and find an image saved on your computer.
- Click on “Upload Photo”.
- If no image appears, there is a problem with the file type or size. Choose another image.
- Using the preview box, select the area you want to use as your avatar. (Notice that you can expand (or decrease) the size of the preview box.
- Click “Continue & Crop” and do another step 5 for your “Alternate Avatar”.
Ava-awesome!
A video tutorial of the process follows:
UPDATE: I know, I know: “I’ve already tried to put up an avatar…multiple times! It didn’t work.”
Fair enough.
Here’s the problem. Your image must be larger than 500px x 500px. Anything smaller than that will simply not work. I know – the admin says “75px x 75px”. That’s wrong (and as soon as we figure out how to change it we will). For the time being though, make sure the image you use for your avatar is greater than 500px x 500px.
