Avatars

Gavin Weeks
Gavin Weeks Posts: 321
edited July 2007 in Discuss the website with the team
Ok,

Due to some confusion with avatars and such, I have switched them so you have to upload them to our site, that way we can monitor the dimensions so they don't break the layout as quite a lot have. Here are the limits so you can adjust your images accordingly.

Dimensions = 80 x 80 pixels maximum
File Size = 5kb

If you are having trouble resizing your images or have no means in which to do this download a nice free piece of image editing software called GimP which you can download from This lovely place!
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  • ratty2k
    ratty2k Posts: 3,872
    Good!!
    That will make things much better!
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    5kb maximum ??????
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  • Gavin Weeks
    Gavin Weeks Posts: 321
    Yes that should be more than enough for a static gif or jpg or those dimensions. :)
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  • ddoogie
    ddoogie Posts: 4,159
    No more dancing weetabix man for me [:(]
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I vote for 150x150, 8 or 10k max. 5Kb is TINY!
  • Gavin Weeks
    Gavin Weeks Posts: 321
    150x150 is far too big.

    5KB is more than enough id you know anything about image compression.

    Our limits for non flash static banners is 15KB with dimensions of 728x90 on all our sites so 80x80 should be easy!
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    80X80 it is then.

    but i have to ask why square?

    why not 120 X 80 so as to fit in with most photo formats?

    eg. 6" X 4"

    i just find the Square thing hard to understand.
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  • louis winthorpe 3rd
    louis winthorpe 3rd Posts: 49
    Thanks....That's fair enough. :)
  • John Stevenson
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Good lord :shock:

    How do i block avatars? :wink:
  • John Stevenson
    John Stevenson Posts: 962
    M.Cole wrote:
    How do i block avatars? :wink:

    I've already asked the devs to see to that :)
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  • Steve Austin
    Steve Austin Posts: 1,803
    I've got that one in the cupboard :oops:

    That cover gave me nightmares :shock:
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  • Gavin Weeks
    Gavin Weeks Posts: 321
    you dont have to use exactly 80x80, u can use 80x60 or 2x80 or 3x4 for example!
    80x80 is just the maximum!
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  • blacksun
    blacksun Posts: 381
    My AV was 80x80, but because it was animated, it was way over 5mb. So tell me... how do you compress an animated gif? ;)
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  • Gavin Weeks
    Gavin Weeks Posts: 321
    I have increased the size to 10KB just to make sure we can fit avatars in. But there wont be any chance of making it higher otherwise we start to affect loads times for those on somewhat slower connections. :)
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  • AndyGates
    AndyGates Posts: 8,467
    Ah, that's where my avatar went. Might be an idea to put a warning of that on the profile page so we don't think it's broken, ta :)
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    So now you are forcing the avatar to be 80X80? i will re size again.
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  • Gavin Weeks
    Gavin Weeks Posts: 321
    It shouldn't be forcing it but for some reason it is.

    I will look into it and see if i can fix it :S
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