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Myst
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"Avatar Question" , posted Tue 16 Sep 18:37

I'm new to the message board. I'm a long time reader, but I haven't bothered to join until now.

I have a question about avatars. It seems that my personalized one doesn't work.
I have the correct URL for the image as it is part of my site, but it's still showing as a broken link.

Is it time activated or something to that extent? Or am I just doing something horribly wrong?

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Rid Hershel

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"Re(1):Avatar Question" , posted Tue 16 Sep 18:39

Free hosts usually disable external linking to images on their accounts... so Geocities, Angelfire and Tripod won't work.

talbaineric

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"Re(1):Avatar Question" , posted Tue 16 Sep 18:41

Welcome. ^_^

First off,the site you have your av stored on is on Geocities. Geocities doesn't allow direct linking.

You can always upload your av to the MMCafe server. Just log into your profile and just upload to there. It'll be in the gray box.

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Myst
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"Re(2):Avatar Question" , posted Tue 16 Sep 18:45

Wow, quick replies. Just under 3 minutes to be exact.

quote:
Welcome. ^_^

Thank you.

quote:

First off,the site you have your av stored on is on Geocities. Geocities doesn't allow direct linking.

You can always upload your av to the MMCafe server. Just log into your profile and just upload to there. It'll be in the gray box.

I don't see anything that would allow uploading other than the "Register" button with the URL text box beside it. That's the one that I used so far.
Am I missing something?

RugalBernstein

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"Re(3):Avatar Question" , posted Tue 16 Sep 18:59

quote:
I don't see anything that would allow uploading other than the "Register" button with the URL text box beside it. That's the one that I used so far.
Am I missing something?

I believe the avatar uploader isn't available until you've hit a certain number of posts.

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EternalNewbie
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"Re(4):Avatar Question" , posted Tue 16 Sep 19:01

Yo! Welcome to the board. I know how you feel about lurking around here and taking a while to actually post. I lurked on this site a long time before I started posting. Actually, I still mainly lurk now, only emerging to post random stuff. Ah well. Still, I do say that this is one of the best boards on the net.

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"Re(4):Avatar Question" , posted Tue 16 Sep 19:03

quote:
I don't see anything that would allow uploading other than the "Register" button with the URL text box beside it. That's the one that I used so far.
Am I missing something?
I believe the avatar uploader isn't available until you've hit a certain number of posts.

You are correct. I don't know what that number is though.

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"Re(5):Avatar Question" , posted Tue 16 Sep 20:13

quote:
I don't see anything that would allow uploading other than the "Register" button with the URL text box beside it. That's the one that I used so far.
Am I missing something?
I believe the avatar uploader isn't available until you've hit a certain number of posts.

You are correct. I don't know what that number is though.

I was gonna say that, but several people beat me to it. Well, until you get the ability to upload your own, you can use one of the Professor's pre-made ones... they're a good selection, actually. I used to use a Yamazaki one that I liked a lot, but then changed around here and there... Yamazaki, Hyatt, Yamazaki, then Sadako. I don't change it very often. All right, I'm rambling. Anyway, I'd recommend the pre-made ones until you can post your own (unless you can find a site to host your avatar).

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TheBeast

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"Re(1):Avatar Question" , posted Tue 16 Sep 20:44

Angelfire allows direct linking...I think.

BlackNinjaVinny

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"Re(2):Avatar Question" , posted Tue 16 Sep 21:48

Just do the geocities .txt trick. I'm doing that with my signature. Just edit one of you're picture files. The page will say something like "filename.jpg" and then another box asking to rename it. Chance it to "filename.txt" and it will let you link it. Problem with the above trick is that it doesn't work on some message boards, but it works fine here.

Taa kun

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"Re(5):Avatar Question" , posted Wed 17 Sep 07:47

quote:
I believe the avatar uploader isn't available until you've hit a certain number of posts.

You are correct. I don't know what that number is though.

Isn't it 200 ?

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"Re(6):Avatar Question" , posted Wed 17 Sep 08:15

quote:
Isn't it 200 ?

That is completely correct.
And I do advise Myst to use the ".txt" trick that Black NinjaVinny just explained.
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Myst
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"Re(7):Avatar Question" , posted Wed 17 Sep 14:11

Well, thanks everyone. It worked. I'll stick with the .txt trick for the meanwhile.

Yeah, I know. It looks horrible for something that I went through so much trouble for. I'm reformatting it. It'll take time and then I'll get the new one up.