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« Reply #30 on: April 14, 2006, 09:27:50 AM »
MacHeadCase: I have tried this avatar thing again and it still doesn't seem to be working.  I have
the following tasteful image of a famous actor:

http://static.flickr.com/47/128368568_4231c27d41.jpg?v=0

And I type this into the Avatar screen in the control panel, hit <Update Avatar> and it grinds and
then acts like it did something and you wait and it goes back to the same page and the URL isn't
there and it says "noavatar".  The image is 90 x 90 pixels and I've tried typing that in.  Any ideas?
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« Reply #31 on: April 14, 2006, 09:31:01 AM »
MacHeadCase: I have tried this avatar thing again and it still doesn't seem to be working.  I have
the following tasteful image of a famous actor:

http://static.flickr.com/47/128368568_4231c27d41.jpg?v=0

And I type this into the Avatar screen in the control panel, hit <Update Avatar> and it grinds and
then acts like it did something and you wait and it goes back to the same page and the URL isn't
there and it says "noavatar".  The image is 90 x 90 pixels and I've tried typing that in.  Any ideas?

MacHeadCase: I have tried this avatar thing again and it still doesn't seem to be working.  I have
the following tasteful image of a famous actor:

http://static.flickr.com/47/128368568_4231c27d41.jpg?v=0

And I type this into the Avatar screen in the control panel, hit <Update Avatar> and it grinds and
then acts like it did something and you wait and it goes back to the same page and the URL isn't
there and it says "noavatar".  The image is 90 x 90 pixels and I've tried typing that in.  Any ideas?
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« Reply #32 on: April 14, 2006, 09:40:24 AM »
QUOTE(gunug @ Apr 14 2006, 10:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
MacHeadCase: I have tried this avatar thing again and it still doesn't seem to be working.  I have
the following tasteful image of a famous actor:

http://static.flickr.com/47/128368568_4231c27d41.jpg?v=0

And I type this into the Avatar screen in the control panel, hit <Update Avatar> and it grinds and
then acts like it did something and you wait and it goes back to the same page and the URL isn't
there and it says "noavatar".  The image is 90 x 90 pixels and I've tried typing that in.  Any ideas?


Like I posted earlier... Delete the ending ?v=0 from the URL and it works in the boards between image tags so it should work for your avatar.

Plainly put, put this URL in the Enter a URL to an online avatar image field: ---> http://static.flickr.com/47/128368568_4231c27d41.jpg

and then click on Update Avatar. Just make sure your image respects the image size 90 X 90 pixels at a resolution of 72 dpi and this should work.
« Last Edit: April 14, 2006, 11:07:50 AM by MacHeadCase »
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« Reply #33 on: April 14, 2006, 10:45:43 AM »
i can not get any avatars to work  sad.gif , not even the in house ones, its says its updating the profile, and then when the CP comes back, No avatar is showing , BooHoo  dntknw.gif
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« Reply #34 on: April 14, 2006, 10:58:10 AM »
On the URL line for adding the avatar you will find Http://, erase that and use the URL line that you are trying to paste.  smile.gif
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« Reply #35 on: April 14, 2006, 12:41:29 PM »
QUOTE(gmann @ Apr 14 2006, 10:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
On the URL line for adding the avatar you will find Http://, erase that and use the URL line that you are trying to paste.  smile.gif

Nope still no work! i'll just have to be the invisible avatar!  coolio.gif
« Last Edit: April 14, 2006, 01:02:22 PM by adrianmoore »
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« Reply #36 on: April 14, 2006, 12:46:06 PM »
Adrian have you tried hosting the image from your server? I have mine on my iDisk... Maybe you can host it from your iDisk too?
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« Reply #37 on: April 14, 2006, 01:08:52 PM »
QUOTE(MacHeadCase @ Apr 14 2006, 12:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Adrian have you tried hosting the image from your server? I have mine on my iDisk... Maybe you can host it from your iDisk too?

I've tried hotlinking and my personal web space with demon.net , i will give iDisk a go and see if that helps, but even the in house avatars do not work for me here, i wonder if its linked to the amount of posts?
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« Reply #38 on: April 14, 2006, 01:25:19 PM »
Nope still no joy using iDisk! must be a post / board thing
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« Reply #39 on: April 14, 2006, 04:47:15 PM »
[quote name='MacHeadCase' date='Apr 14 2006, 06:07 AM' post='94879']
Multiquote is so cool! Say you want to quote two people or more in your reply, you just click on the Quote + below each of those you want their quote to appear in your reply box so you can reply to each of them individually in the same post.

I think it's simply fab!!!  clap.gif

I tried it.


[quote name='PussEFoote' date='Apr 14 2006, 06:38 AM' post='94880']
Got to agree on this one!  cool.gif

BarbZ in OZ
[/quote]

And I like it!

Clicking Quote+ highlights the button. After you have the ones highlighted that you want to quote, go to the Reply button at the BOTTOM of the screen and click it.

But I did something wrong! I obviously erased the "end quote" from MHC's post, but both are there for PEF's. Thinking.gif
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« Reply #40 on: April 14, 2006, 05:04:47 PM »
QUOTE(adrianmoore @ Apr 14 2006, 02:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I've tried hotlinking and my personal web space with demon.net , i will give iDisk a go and see if that helps, but even the in house avatars do not work for me here, i wonder if its linked to the amount of posts?


Works...

QUOTE(adrianmoore @ Apr 14 2006, 02:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Nope still no joy using iDisk! must be a post / board thing


...for me...

QUOTE(Gregg @ Apr 14 2006, 05:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
And I like it!

Clicking Quote+ highlights the button. After you have the ones highlighted that you want to quote, go to the Reply button at the BOTTOM of the screen and click it.

But I did something wrong! I obviously erased the "end quote" from MHC's post, but both are there for PEF's. Thinking.gif


...just fine! Yep, you probably deleted a quote tag somewhere...
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« Reply #41 on: April 14, 2006, 10:08:32 PM »
One thing you all will have to understand, the last time we upgraded the board software we set up a test board and ironed out most of the kinks ahead of time. We weren't able to do that this time so we are adjusting things while it is live. That can cause a lot of misunderstandings and some of what you see may be different as we go along.

I'll take a look at the avatar galleries later and see if I can see what's going on.

More skins will be available in due time.  smile.gif

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« Reply #42 on: April 14, 2006, 11:07:02 PM »
Ah.  Back online.  Nice to see you up and running.  Lots of new stuff to see and get used to.  It allowed me to log in today (first time since the upgrade) It's nice to be remembered!  Not everything made the trip though.


Avatar issue:
Me too. Followed the thread to here and it appears that I'm not alone.  
My avatar   http://www.mirafiori.com/~kdickson/pics/comp.gif  for some reason won't fly.   It's only 72X70 at 72dpi.  Tried all the above fixes and even moved it around to a couple of different servers.  

Not sure if this helps, but this shows up at the bottom of my screen after the update script runs.  It appears to be an error message.

IPB WARNING [2] (null)() [ref.outcontrol]: output handler 'ob_gzhandler' cannot be used twice (Line: 0 of Unkno
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« Reply #43 on: April 15, 2006, 03:09:18 AM »
krissel - My avatar is working now!  Thanks for all of your efforts; and I know it isn't very important in the scheme of things.  smile.gif    

FYI: I did nothing different than I was doing before and I just tried it again as MacHeadCase
suggested and pasted it in without the end of the tag and I typed in the actual 90x90 size.  
I also deleted the "http:" that was already in that box as per whoever else's suggestion. I
did get the same message talked about elsewhere:

IPB WARNING [2] (null)() [ref.outcontrol]: output handler 'ob_gzhandler' cannot be used twice. . .

But this time it actually worked!  Must've been something you changed!  clap.gif

MHC - Thanks for your suggestions.
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« Reply #44 on: April 15, 2006, 04:07:36 AM »
Yea! my Avatar is now here too! , Keep up the great work, its nice to see this place back up again! eusa_dance.gif
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