Write about the process about setting up your blog and your avatar in a new blog post for Thing #3. Have you looked at anyone else's blog...have you made a comment or ask a question?
Setting up the blog was easy for me as I have done so many times and have a few active still. Having all blogs under one user account will make things easier for me since I have separate user accounts now and I tend to forget which account is under which user name. Setting up the Yahoo avatar was a royal pain. I had to re-do it 5 times and it NEVER saved. Then I went back to the post and noticed a note about YAHOO avatars having problems anyways. So I took a screen shot of the avatar, put it in Paint, put that in PPT so I could save the image and size it, then saved the jpg to my desktop and put a picture widget on the blog to show my avatar, but it is not from the Yahoo avatars app. :-/
I did go to a collegue's clog and made a comment about IGoogle and a shared calendar we can use as traveling librarians. I am so excited to be working with others who love to use tech tools to help us do our jobs well!
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Yahoo avatar site does provide a way to save the avatar as a picture, but you used my very favorite way of saving things when that is not possible...screen shot + PPT
ReplyDeleteA lot of people are having trouble with posting their Avatars. There's something wrong with the html code, but here's what to do to get around that:
ReplyDelete1. Go to your avatar on the Yahoo page. Click export like before.
2. Right click on the avatar and choose "save as" or the like.
3. Save the picture to your desktop with a name you will remember (as a picture -- .jpeg)
4. Go back to your blog and choose "customize".
5. Click on your avatar gadget (it's an html gadget) and click "remove" when it asks if you are sure, say "yes". You are sure.
6. Click “add gadget” and choose the picture gadget. Make sure “from your computer” is selected and click “browse”.
7. Find where you saved your avatar, select it, and click “open”.
8. Click “save”.
9. Click “save” again, just in case.
10. Click view blog. Your avatar should show up.
Hope this helps!
A lot of players have had trouble with their Avatars. There seems to be something wrong with the html code. Here are some steps you can try to get around that:
ReplyDelete1. Go to your avatar on the Yahoo page. Click export like before.
2. Right click on the avatar and choose "save as" or the like.
3. Save the picture to your desktop with a name you will remember (as a picture -- .jpeg)
4. Go back to your blog and choose "customize".
5. Click on your avatar gadget (it's an html gadget) and click "remove" when it asks if you are sure, say "yes". You are sure.
6. Click “add gadget” and choose the picture gadget. Make sure “from your computer” is selected and click “browse”.
7. Find where you saved your avatar, select it, and click “open”.
8. Click “save”.
9. Click “save” again, just in case.
10. Click view blog. Your avatar should show up.
Hope this helps.