I’m messing with the gravatar plug-in for the comments. Basically, if you go to their site, and upload an image to associate with your e-mail, it will display that image whenever you use that e-mail address to identify yourself with a comment.
Update – Brenda posted this in the comments – I had a similar problem:
After I selected my 80×80 icon and hit crop, I had to also assign it to the email (seemed like it should do it automatically, but it was a second step).
Testing.
Actually, this will only work if other folks are using them. Having my stupid mug all over the place doesn’t add much.
oh no! who selected mine?
Alright, let’s give this a shot.
Heh. Nice. I’m Wilson!
OK, now it should work. Hey Wilson, use your real email address and it will work correctly! ;-)
Er… Doug, will you mop up this slop please?
I’m here – I’m queer – get used to it!
maybe it takes a few minutes for the gravatar to “take”?
Hmm.. lemme see..
We’re all just one big happy family. Hey Branden, come sing Kumbaya with the rest of us look-alikes!
Testing…
…it doesn’t work. :(
Test post. (Sorry Doug)
my turn?
So… it works for me… what did I do differently? After I selected my 80×80 icon and hit crop, I had to also assign it to the email (seemed like it should do it automatically, but it was a second step).
so that’s the trick!
The default gravatar will do fine…full head of black, mussed hair,50 years younger looking, and he looks like a computer nerd.I’m computer illiterate so it again enhances my image. I already have a less serious ‘avatar’ in the baseball blog I contribute to,so my 2nd choice would be to just keep my Chicago Cubs logo.
I think it works, Doug.
My dear wife has gotten rid of the default aggravatar. When one of us gets around to it, maybe we can make it a blank space or, if that’s too tricky, maybe something like the “M” with a blue background that shows up in the URL bar.
I’ve edited the thing to give it another try. Let’s see how it works…
I think a nice question mark would do the trick. Or a dinosaur!
(And that’s called a favicon, honey.)
Sometimes it takes a while for the gravatar to show up.
I did assign the gravatar an e-mail address, confirmed it, and still got that cartoon head thingy. Maybe I will mess with it again later.
Wilson,
Your gravatar made me think of the opening narration from the old TV series, The Outer Limits. ;)
Let me see if mine works!
It takes a few minutes for the Gravatar database to get updated — then all of your old ones will get recognized as well. Make sure at the end, you confirmed that you wanted the picture to be assigned.
I sent a question to Gravatar’s support. I think that I did everything that I was supposed to do, including confirming and assigning an e-mail address. It seemed like a neat idea, but you know, if it doesn’t work, it is no big deal.
Okay let’s see if this works.
Testing.
Oh, T, there’s so much I could say about your choice;-)
In case anyone else is still having problems, mine was an easy fix that I found after reading the Help/FAQs. The e-mail address you use here must be all lowercase. Once I made that change here, the gravatar showed up as it was supposed to.
Pila,
That sucks. The “local part” of email addresses are permitted to be case-sensitive under the RFCs, though the domain part is not — or, rather the domain part is case-folded so that there is difference between AoL.CoM, aol.com, AOL.COM, etc.
I’m willing to rethink my opposition to the death penalty if we can apply it exclusively to web software developers who work in ignorance of applicable Internet RFCs.
The above should read “should be no difference”.
Also, RFC 821 was promulgated in August 1982.
I realize that might be a little too recent for many of today’s web developers. Most of their parents were still in junior high at the time, after all.
Doug,
I think one of my comments got eaten by your spam filter…
Branden:
Although I understood half of what you said, I can conclude that I probably mispoke in comment #32.
I have a capital letter at the beginning of my e-mail address (presumably the “local” part you refer to.) Once I changed that first letter to lowercase, the gravatar appeared. It may very well be that only the “local” part of the e-mail address needs to be lowercase for the gravatar to appear.
Yesterday, I went to the Help/FAQs section on Gravatar and read something about e-mail addresses needing to be lowercase. I didn’t read it closely, and probably wouldn’t have understood it if I had. :) Anyway, I saw that, changed the first letter of my e-mail address to lowercase, and the gravatar magically appeared.
Sorry if I made things more confusing for you or anyone else.
who needs gravatar? I’ve got “Gravatas” giggle.
My gravatar is in honor of my friend who died last Thursday morning. We were in the British Museum and she quickly sketched Selene’s horse. I hope it shows up!
Uh, I didn’t mean that she died in the British Museum….Last summer we were there and she sketched the head.
tripletma: That is lovely sketch, and a nice way to honor your friend.