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AVATARS!

Yes, we heard you!!! We've heard those calls to further personalize the forum and allow members to have an avatar appear when they post. Until recently we've resisted the idea for a number of reasons; the primary being members could not upload images and cross linking slows down page loading because the website has to go out and get the image.

Well now everyone has the ability to create their own personal gallery on the website and post their own member blogs. We thought "What better way to encourage the use of these features!!"

You'll notice both the forum and blog now show avatars for the poster and the those who reply. Clicking on the photo will bring up a full size version without taking you away from the page! The arrows below the picture will allow you to scroll through the Avatars of other members. Now you can get a visual of who is posting... put a face to a name... get a glimpse of who they are and maybe find out if it's someone you know or have seen... or someone you WILL know the next time you see them.

The avatar is actually your profile picture, and while you can still remotely link, we suggest you create your personal gallery and upload an image for your profile. Once uploaded you'll see an icon below the image to set it as your profile picture. You can also use the regular photo gallery the same way. Simply search for your member number and use the same icon.

BLOGS!

To further enhance the blog module we've given members the ability to control the blog a little more. The Author can now lock their blog, and not allow comments (they will have to unlock it to edit it too, but they can prevent members from posting to it!). Members can also delete posts from other members (not admins or moderators) if they don't like them. The blog is yours!!! You can also delete a blog once it's been replied to (the only caveat is you have to delete the replies first - if there are any). Yes, we know there are some limitations here, but they were necessary. We hope you understand.

You can also easily link images from your member gallery into you blog! In the post Format: Options look for the (

) Icon. You can also post YouTube Videos in your blog using the(

) icon.

When reading a blog, at the very top to the right you'll see a few more icons and a list of websites you can share the blog on. If you find a member's post interesting share it on your favorite website or email it to a friend. You can also search for blogs by specific players and get a list of blogs by date.

Comments, questions and bug reports are always welcome!

Enjoy everyone!

Bob Swauger
Rhode Island APA Web Admin

Bluesman

79 Posts

Posted 11/21/2009 : 6:23:35 PM

Hey Bob. I'm having a problem trying to upload a photo. Could you give a step by step? My profile has a "picture url" space but most of those have a browse feature to get the photo and upload it. Not sure what to do with this one?

Bob Swauger

41 Posts

Posted 11/21/2009 : 7:56:13 PM

Member Gallery Video Tutorial

Member Gallery Video Tutorial

This should give let you know how it works. The URL is in the profile is only if you want to link form an external site. I'm going to see what we can do to make that clearer.

Bob Swauger
Rhode Island APA Web Admin

Bob Swauger

41 Posts

Posted 11/22/2009 : 5:55:14 PM

We've added a few icons to the member profile, so when editing you can browse to your member gallery and pick an image you've uploaded. If you have no images in your gallery (or have not created a gallery) you'll get an icon to click and do that. You can also preview the image you've selected before submitting the page - bear in mind it will resize it to 200px wide when viewed.

There's also a link to this video, which we will be re-cutting, to explain the changes. Hopefully this makes it easier and clearer.

You can still link to an external image, but we strongly suggest using an image you've uploaded. It will keep the site running fast because it will not have to go fetch an image from another website. We also can't control how some external sites encode Jpegs uploaded to them, so there is less chance you're external link will error out when we resize it for display.

Bob Swauger
Rhode Island APA Web Admin

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