What the %$%^ am I doing wrong?

fatpratt1996

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I swear that I have tried everything but all I get is the little red X on my avater. Please help
 

Dunaruna

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Re: What the %$%^ am I doing wrong?

What picture hosting site are you using?<br /><br />If you have the pic on your computers harddrive could you e-mail it?<br /><br />Aldo
 

12Footer

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Re: What the %$%^ am I doing wrong?

What SBN said. The link to your chosen avitar is not a pic host host, and may even have such linkage blocked somehow.<br />If you don't have a web host for pics, try PBASE.COM for access. They allow 25megs for free (I think). I'm a subscriber to pbase, so I don't remember what the free side is. But that will give you a page or two of upload space.<br />Also, your ISP (AOL, Earthlink, whoever), usually gives you space to publish a "home page". You can place a limitted amount of pics there too.<br />You could also attempt to link to other pics you find online, but the results may be simular to what you have now.
 

62_Kiwi

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Re: What the %$%^ am I doing wrong?

Yeah what 12Footer said...<br />Also, if you want to use one of iBoats' built-in avatars, just do the following;<br />1. Click on "My Profile" at the top of this screen<br />2. Then click on "Edit Profile"<br />3. The scroll down to where it says "Avatar Image"<br />4. Click on "Select a different avatar image"<br />5. Click on one of the pictures<br />6. Press the "Select this avatar" button.<br /><br />If that doesn't work....then scream loudly :eek: ;)
 

fatpratt1996

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Re: What the %$%^ am I doing wrong?

I did e-mail the pic and I thought that would work, but when I click on the pic I can't find a url.
 

Dunaruna

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Re: What the %$%^ am I doing wrong?

Did you follow the information given on the thread that SBN suggested?<br /><br />If you e-mailed it I assume its on your harddrive and not one of i-boats avatars, right? You will need to find a picture hosting site such as photobucket.com . You can't use a picture file from your harddrive directly to i-boats, it won't work.<br /><br />Aldo
 

fatpratt1996

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Re: What the %$%^ am I doing wrong?

Thanks guys, I give up. This computer language is jibber-jabber to me.
 

12Footer

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Re: What the %$%^ am I doing wrong?

It's just "new jibber-jabber" to you, not over your head jibber jabber.<br />Just think of url the same as link.<br /><br />You tried to link to a picture file on a website. Sometimes this does werk, but only when the host (iboats.com, in your the case of your pic) doesn't forbid it. You can allways try. It may even start out werkin, only to roll-over and "red-ecks" in a day or two...<br /><br />The way you wrote the line was correct.<br /><br />Now all you need to do when you find a neat pic, is to save the pic to your computer, then havbe a place online to store it.<br />This could be your ISP, (nternet service provder), like AOL, Earthlink ect.<br />It could also be another site such as "iboats",which specialises in boats stuff, that specialises in artwerk,such as "pbase" or,"kodak" ,or storing photos. Most of these are subcription only, (like "Rush24-7"specialises in conservative studies).<br />But some allow a small amount of space for free. What costs online is space or Bandwidth...<br />Your pic will take up some room somewhere. Even this message takes-up space on iboats....It's why they want you to keep the size of your pic down (100x100 pixels) on your avitar-- to conserve space.<br /> <br />I hope it answers the questions, but if it don't, ask-away. Consider it a classroom, not a stage. The gang here specialise in outboard and marine /fishing/ repair topics, but they might be computer geeks by trade, and like helpin.<br />And take Dunaruna up on his offer.
 

fatpratt1996

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Re: What the %$%^ am I doing wrong?

Thanks guys, my computer wouldn't let me e-mail any pics without messing up so I just picked one of the avaters on this site. Thanks
 
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