Thursday, October 1, 2009 | Posted by Jay
I'm posting this for a two reasons:
1) Many websites out there still don't know about the awesomeness of Gravatar
2) and I finally installed the thing myself, so this should inform users how they can take advantage of it!
Perhaps it might be more accurate to say that online communities are not necessarily growing, but that the
number of online communities are growing. As interests get broken up into thousands of community websites, and community websites get broken into their own little activity groups, and as individuals even break up into their own usernames and online identities...it becomes a real bother to constantly retype and resubmit your name, your last name, your email, your avatar.
"A Globally Recognized Avatar"
"Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?"
All you have to do is
sign up for a free account, and you can use it at any website that supports Gravatar (i.e. TJN also supports it). When you type in the email you associated with your Gravatar account, the avatar you uploaded will automatically show in your comments!
Some useful links for developers:
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I never really thought too much about gravatars. I've seen them since I've been using Haloscan for a long time as a comment thing for my sites initially (aka before I got wordpress). I didn't really know too much about them. Thanks for the condensed informative version :D
I think I might consider signing up for it eventually :3
Fancy. I didn't get myself a Gravatar before a few months back.
Ha-ha, I know. One can sleep on the floor, if one wants to (though I wouldn't recommend it).
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