This post was published 3 years 9 months 18 days ago and as such probably does not reflect my current opinions, knowledge or ability.You many have noticed that the comments on KCNB have a little avatar next to them. Since most of these are showing up as the default image, my little blue space invader (who by the way is called Marcel), I thought I’d share with you how to get your own image showing up.
This site, like many other blogs and websites, has been equipped to use Gravatars. The idea is that you sign up for an account, and an image is tied to your email address. When you enter that email address on a Gravatar enabled blog or website, your avatar will automatically be displayed. This makes it easy for you to have a perpetual identity between a range of different sites – essential for bloggers hoping to promote themselves.
Hope to see some more pretty images soon – feel free to comment on this post to test your Gravatar. It does take a few minutes to appear after you’ve created an account.
Don’t worry if your Gravatar doesn’t show up within the 5/10 minutes it claims it should… mine took overnight
Yeah, mine took about 20 minutes, but it seems to be working fine now.
Got one for myself now, its a Whistle, and its Caramel coloured. Guess why!
( P.S. Registration? I’m fed up of having to type in my details… )
Oh yeah, I see it. Nice one.
You shouldn’t have to fill in your details each time unless you clear your cookies if you are using the same browser/PC.
I often clean out my cookies
Never know what mould spores are at the bottom of the jar.
Too true.
Well I’ll consider adding user registration then. I wonder if there’s some sort of benefit I could offer for registered user…
You set a post to ‘private’ and only logged in users see it. However you have to log in which I don’t often do unless commenting. I put registration on for convenience, on my list of things to do is have a “Fill out details or log in” with pictures bit above my comment form just so the option to do it is more obvious than the login link at the top of the page. Thing is I keep getting distracted last night I was writing my Wall.e/rendering post and the night before redesigning how comments are displayed. I suppose once its done it’ll be done.
Yeah, I’d like to have some sort of incentive to register, but I certainly wouldn’t want to make it more difficult for readers who choose not to register. I’ll think about it.