Cool magic animated avatar for someone

[MaxNY]

I'm having the damnest time trying to get my avatar on this board. As a computer illiterate, I'm not having much luck. Any help Brad? I did send you some sort of inner messaging thing last week. But, I did find a great looking magic saw-n-half themed avatar for someone. http://avatars.jurko.net/65/
Go about six lines down. Great huh?

[Bill Duncan]

You mean this one?

The best way would be for Brad to upload a copy to the Genii collection so we don't have to hit the image from other websites (this one is posted on my website).

[MaxNY]

I've got one posted on a website, but for some reason it is not working... Yes, that was the one I liked..

[Bill Duncan]

If you can open it in your web browser, just copy the URL and paste it into the Forum's prefs page. You'll need the full URL:

http://www.whateveryourservernameis/wha ... onname.gif

That sort of thing...

[Bill Duncan]

Bump.

I've had three people in the past two days, ask me about the magic "floating box" avatar.

The site and page are listed above.

And now it's Hammer Time!

[Gord]

And now it's Hammer Time!

I beg to differ.

IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!

Gord

[mai-ling]

make sure you have the correct extension of you image file.
.gif or .jpg
and don't forget the http://

i have mine uploaded on my servers main folder.

[DrDanny]

Personally, I find animated avatars to be a distraction. I guess I'm showing my age, but if I want stuff to jump around on the screen, I'll watch TV or go to a theater.

This forum allows one to turn off avatars altogether (in "My Preferences"), which is nice, but there's a middle ground. My browser of choice, Opera, has a setting to show the pics, but not animate them. Other browsers might have that setting as well. This way, I can see Richard's lovely blue whatchamacallit, but not have to wonder if David Regal's thingie is going to crawl across the screen. ;-)

[Richard Kaufman]

My avatar is the face of the god Mara from the ride Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye at Disneyland.

[DrDanny]

Oh... I assumed it was the stopper from a Victorian-era perfume bottle, perhaps recovered from the Titanic. But a bit of googling turned up this: http://www.disneylandfinds.com/2008/03/ ... nsion.html leading me to believe you've confused a couple of Disney attractiions.

[Richard Kaufman]

I don't confuse Disneyland attractions, but I can confuse message boards! I was thinking of my avatar on doombugggies.com! My avatar here is a Bat Stanchion from the Haunted Mansion.

[Frank Dudgeon]

DrDanny said : Personally, I find animated avatars to be a distraction. I guess I'm showing my age, but if I want stuff to jump around on the screen, I'll watch TV or go to a theater.
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I'm with you DrDanny - especially the dancing ones - I think it's someone trying to sell me a mortage. At least it's not like on my Yahoo page, where stuff swoops over what you're trying to read. Hate that.

Thanks for the tip on keeping the avatars motionless. Probably a case of fun for some, for others distracting.

[Brian Morton]

My avatar here is a Bat Stanchion from the Haunted Mansion.

Ah yes, Bat Stanchion. I saw his act in the Parlour back in the day. Man, that guy could do one heck of a Ball Vase routine....

brian :grin:

[Richard Kaufman]

Brian, you're thinking of Bat Masterson.