Guide on how to add a Signitiure or avatar to your profile
Step 1
Once logged in, head on over to the top right of the webpage and find the tab that says Profile shown in the picture below
Step 2
Once loaded, a page containing all your profile information should be visable. On this page you will see a section at the top of that profile page which allows you to change your Profile Picture
(Note this is not your avatar on the forums just a picture that represents your profile page)
Hit the edit button and a frame should pop up allowing you to browse your pc and select an image to upload. (Note: If you upload more than one image they will save underneath for future use)
After selecting the image from your PC hit the upload and use button and click Save to apply the changes
Step 3
The following section contains all the information on the users forum activity to get to this section scroll down till you reach a section that looks like the picture below
The same applies for this section to edit the profile for your forum acitivty hit the edit button.
the following should pop up
To change your avatar hit the browse button which can be found alongside the "My Avatar" section and once again browse your computer for the disired image
(Note: the avatar must be a certain size and gifs are allowed)
If you wish to customise your forum profile even furthor then you have the option to change your signiture which is a picture or a text below every post you make on the forum.
to change your text based signiture just enter the desired text in the box provided next to the "Forum Signiture" section
to change your image based signiture you click on the browse button which can be found next to the "Forum Sig Image" section. Afterwards browse your image and select save.
(Note: the size of the signiture image has to be 714 x 50 otherwise you will get an error and be asked to resize the image)
I hope that helped and i will upload more information if neccesery
Posted on Tuesday, 26th July 2011