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Click on the “Go” (LH top) and click on the drop down: “MY SPACE”…click on “PROFILE”..then click on: “VIEW/EDIT COMPLETE PROFILE” in the upper RH corner. Scroll down to the Avatar area and click on “EDIT”. When the “Avatar screen” appears, click on “Custom Avatar”. Enter the web address for the picture you wish to use as an avatar. You MUST have a “web address” for an avatar. To get the web address of a picture you’ve found, you need to right click on the picture and then click on “properties” and copy the web address when it appears and paste that web address to the custom avatar section and presto you have a new avatar. Hope this helps.
Fungo

PS..If you right click on my avatar, you will see under the properties this URL (web address)...http://www.secsports.com/image_lib/bbc_aub_josh_bell_164x225.jpg

This is where this picture resides and I just provide the link in the custom avatar section to that particular picture.

Thanks again for your help Fungo

Fungo : I was wondering about the same thing as Doc_K_Kid but at least he had the sense to ask the question...so thanks to Doc_K_Kid for asking and thanks Fungo for answering. Now all I have to do is find a suitable avatar.

Fungo,

Thanks; that's the first successful effort I've ever had in adding a custom avatar!

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Fungo...

This is why you are "Highly regarded and beloved"....

Thanks!

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I am glad someone asked. It works great. Thanks

That's my boy

Let's see if this works!

Looks like I'm at least part way there!

Try once more!

Ulp!

Gulp!

Scratching my head?

Pasting was so much easier with that rubber tipped Mucilage bottle.

Again!

Presto!

Finally... that's an Old Growth Douglas-fir (remarkably on a sunny day!).

Sure am glad to see the kind of wood you got for sale. Had me kinda skeered for a second.

txdad06:

Didn't mean to skeer ya'.

Douglas-fir, Ponderosa Pine, Western Redcedar, Southern Yellow Pine, Red Oak, Poplar, Ash, Hickory, Maple, etc. ...with these I can eke out a living.

The kind that skeers you I'm afraid would only bring me a pittance!

Aren't you glad I finally figured out that whole avatar thing. I swear I did it WITHOUT the help of my fifth grade daughter.

with 229 posts under your belt (so to speak) glad to see you are finally able to expose your wood. Been along time coming, wouldn't you say?

txdad06:

I'm not sure I would say it quite that way but you're right.

My communication skills are some where between smoke signal and semaphore. High-tech I ain't. So something utterly simple as posting an avatar on the HSBBW is a very real accomplishment for me!

Judging from the string of attempts that I made you can assume that I am at least determined and not too humble!

gotwood ...

Love the avatar ... perhaps you can loan it to 123KMOM and Justbaseball whose sons both attend Stanford ... sure looks like the Cardinal tree on my computer.

FutureBack.Mom:

You've certainly got good taste regarding trees!

The Stanford Cardinal tree is most likely a stately,majestic Coast Redwood. Their range includes the area around Palo Alto.

The tree in my avatar is also majestic, but its a Douglas-fir.

Thanks for noticing.

Just seeing if this works

catcher09:

Congratulations on getting it right the first time!

On page one you can trace all of my miscues.

When I finally got it right all of the mistakes magically were corrected.

What would we do without all of these wonderful gizmos?

Just figured this out - if you want to see the avatar better - right click on it and choose copy. Then Open Paint (Start/Programs/accesories/paint) and choose paste.

catcher09,

You can also just right click on the image and choose view image, it will then become inlarged.