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Hmmm just noticed the "post reply" button at the bottom left. There's a heck of a lot of stuff on the screen. I'm just a simple person, really.
I hope posters don't start doing text in colours and stupid pix and stuff. I used to go to a running message board, which allowed animated gifs as avatars. The board became unreadable.
What kind of file is it and what is its normal resolution?!
An avatar is 80x80 pixels maximum, which even if it was a 24 bit bitmap would be 19,200 bytes (just under the 20000 limit). A jpeg would be even smaller.
I suggest using a decent picture editor (Photoshop if you have it, GIMP is a free version) which will allow you to adjust the size of the image and it will do a nice job of scaling it to get it under the limit.
It's the Eagle I have in my personal file. When I uploaded it I had thought it would be the picture which shows up as an Avatar. I don't know how to make it smaller. It's what I used on a similar setup for the picture beside my posts.
My Eagle is a bird of prey. That's how I play chess. :)
I posted an event on the Calendar for August 29-31 (Abe Yanofsky mem.). I can see the event when I am logged on. However, if I just click on this site, without logging in, I see nothing at all. What up with that?
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
It's the Eagle I have in my personal file. When I uploaded it I had thought it would be the picture which shows up as an Avatar. I don't know how to make it smaller. It's what I used on a similar setup for the picture beside my posts.
My Eagle is a bird of prey. That's how I play chess. :)
I suggest you to copy/paste it in paint. After you'll can easily save it as a JPEG image.
If it is any help, I am able to see the birthday notification for Andrei Botez on the calendar when I am NOT logged in under my account. It is the events, like the AY Memorial, that do not appear.
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
The calendar needs an edit. June 14 has a duplicate entry by Charles Aronowitz on the "Championship of the NorthEast Kingdom".
I mention this because I'm not sure if Charles is up to editing his handiwork and deleting the duplicate entry. I seem to remember reading some remarks of frustration on his part on the old board.
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
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