Got no avatar? Let me make you one

[Piscator]

I second that.

[joo]

Heh, I've finally realised how you people manage to have avatars of a greater size than 80x80.

[DylPickle]

.... How?

[joo]

Providing an off-site link to an image allows you to have an avatar of... apparently any size.

[SekoETC]

If an avatar stretches the layout of the site then it's too big. Even my current avatar is a couple of pixels too wide unless I remembered to resize it. But 240x240 is definitely too big.

[joo]

In that case, 150 should be the max (based on a 3 pixel padding and a page where the only avatar is less than 80 pixels wide).

edit: That must be wrong, as it shrinks to 144.

[formerly known as hf]

I remember working this out way back, and requested that 150x150 be the max people use (as, even though that's a little too wide, it's a common size for large avatars on the net, and doesn't distort too much), as, at that time, there were quite a lot of people using layout-distorting avatars.

[Doug R.]

I've retired the shepherd avatar. I thought of putting up a picture of myself, but decided not to. If anyone can think of anything appropriate to my real or perceived personality, let me know. Suggest it before you draw it though, I wouldn't want you to waste your time in case I don't like it.

Maybe I can use some graphics relevant to my dead characters...

[joo]

Someone can have my noob one if they want. I was only using it as a spacefiller while I was drawing my current one but it did take a while to make (I actually lost my only copy of the old one when I was testing the different sizes).

[Bear]

in boxer shorts holding a coffee cup

almost too good, how did you know?

[joo]

Doug, maybe you would be interested in an adaption of this Far Side cartoon.

[Piscator]

[Doug R.]

Doug, maybe you would be interested in an adaption of this Far Side cartoon.

That's definately one of my favs, but I'm not sure if it would be big enough. I can try it though. - Just shrunk it to 150, but it induces eye-strain.

[SekoETC]

[joo]

I was thinking of something along these lines. It has compacted to let everything fit in at an acceptable size, and could possibly even be shrunk to 80x80 with a bit of tweaking.