Avatars

[Mike Bobbitt]

Folks,

I wanted to announce that avatars are now available on this board. Here are some details:

• Avatars show up just below your name, every time your post. (The Canada flag under my name is an example.)
• You can opt not to have an avatar.
• You can opt not to see other people‘s avatars.
• You can select an avatar from some pre-defined choices. Right now, these are pretty bad, but I wanted to get the feature "out there".
• People with 31+ posts can also provide a URL to their own custom avatar. Please keep the size to roughly 48x64 pixels. Large avatars will just be removed.
• You can upload your own custom avatars into the Photo Album, in the newly created "Avatars" folder. You can then put the URL to your uploaded avatar into your profile. (I‘ll post seperate instructions on this, time permitting.)
• When picking your avatar, it may appear "squished" but it will look OK when viewed on your posts.
• As this is a "beta" feature, the avatar you pick now may disappear or change later on.
  

If you have any questions, just let me know. In the mean time, I‘m looking for ideas for new avatars!
Cheers

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Hello all,

One of my long standing and unfulfilled goals on this forum is to provide every Canadian Regiment‘s cap badge as an avatar. As you can see from the current selection, I‘m far from it. The reason being that I simply don‘t have most badges available to me.

So if you have full colour, large images of your regimental cap badges, I would love to have a copy. (Please e-mail to Bobbitt@CdnArmy.ca)

In return, I‘ll provide an avatar image for that badge on these forums.

Cheers

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

One more note... Here‘s how to update your Avatar:

In the upper right, click on "Profile," then "View/Update Profile," and then "Select a different Avatar Image."

Or you can just click here.

Some of the avatars will look "squished" on the selection screen, but they‘ll look OK in your posts.

If you have any questions, just let me know.

Thanks to those that have already provided badges.

Cheers

 

[combat_medic]

For the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada:

http://www.seaforth-highlanders.ca/seaforthlogo2.JPG

or

http://www.seaforthhighlanders.ca/frontstag1.gif

 

[toms3]

The Avatar image does not show up on my posts.

Can you tell me why that might be happeneing?

Thanks

oops.....will you look at that...there it is....nevermind

 

[Pikache]

http://cdnarmy.ca/inf/hfc.php

^RHFC cap badge looks like that, except it‘s all silvery colour.

 

[Argyll_2347]

The Argyll‘s website: www.ashofc.ca

 

[muskrat89]

WOW - 1000+ members. Now isn‘t Mike or somebody supposed to give us cool CDNARMY.CA tee shirts?

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Absolutely. They‘re in the mail.

1,000 members is a milestone though, thanks for all your support!

 

[ArmyBoyzGurl]

do any of you know the cap badge of fire control sys. techs?! is it the unicorn and lightening bolts one? i‘m not to sure.. thanks!

 

[Doug VT]

Yes that‘s the one for FCS Tech. The EME badge.

 

[ArmyBoyzGurl]

sweet, i‘ve always thought that that was THE coolest badge.. LOL, thanks!

 

[gk404]

How about the QOR of C badge?

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Sounds great. Do you have a copy I can put in as an avatar for you?

Cheers

 

[kurokaze]

Here is a link to the 7 Toronto RCA badge.

http://www.army.dnd.ca/7TORONTO_REGT/7torontorca/Images/CapBdge_4.gif

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Thanks, I‘ve already got the Arty badge in the list.

 

[GGHG_Cadet]

Heres the address to the Governor General‘s Horse Guards cap badge:http://ww2.isys.ca/army/insignia/gghg.gif

 

[Bzzliteyr]

I posted my capbadge avatar to the pictures setting, it suggests linking to the avatar. how do I do this?

Bzz

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Just go to the album, find the image you want to use as an avatar, and right click, selecing properties.

This will show the URL to the image itself, something like this:

http://cdnarmy.ca/album/Avatars/12RBC.gif

Now just edit your profile, and you can paste this URL into the "Use Custom URL" box.

That should do it!

Cheers

 

[Bzzliteyr]

I am feeling kind of silly, but I don‘t see any "use custom URL" section with regards to avatars...

Bzz