The rumors of our death are greatly exaggerated. It appears the dunce.net deal has fallen through, and to our delight, we're stuck at being dance.net for the foreseeable future. (However, I will be prominently posting any "dunce" photos that make it to our mailbox.) To celebrate, there's now a new avatar/bio photo feature.



OK, technically, this was introduced yesterday, but not everybody knows about it seeing how controversy has buried this story in the nether regions of <b>Tell dance.net</b>:



You can now upload a photo/picture which will be used in your bio. A small 100x100 (max dimension in pixels) version is generated for use as your "avatar" in the forums.



To use this feature, you must have posted at least 50 comments. (Sorry, newbies, this is needed to guard against abuse and is an incentive for your continued participation. )



To upload your photo or image, make sure you're signed in, and then click on <a href=/search.html?mode=myprofile>your profile</a>. You'll see a new link to <a href=/upload.html>upload new photo/avatar</a>.



Note that you don't have to use a photo of yourself if you're concerned about privacy or whatever. You can always use a cartoon, animal, pointe shoes, tutu, etc.



Also know that adding or changing your avatar takes up to 24 hours to propagate to all your old messages. New messages will immediately use your new avatar. You can assume that whatever photo displays in your profile will be updated to all your old messages before long.



Linh

This new feature is a great idea, thanks a lot for introducing it...

Ha ha, Linh,

Now we all know once and for all that you are a GUY!

**giggle**

BalletGurl

LOL Thanks for this new feature! Very cool idea!!!

this is a really cool idea linh!! thanks so much... but does anyone know how to change a bmp. file into a jpg or a gif file?? i can't seem to get it to work... i've tried saving it as "all files" but that doesn't work either!! please help!

i LUV it!

DKB!

lovingdance, you might try Paintshop Pro. It has a 30-day free trial and you can download it from: jasc.com. It's similar to Photoshop, but much less expensive. I believe it has the ability to save images as GIF or JPG.

Linh

Paintshop Pro is fantastic, I tried the trial version, when the 30 days ran up I couldn't live without it so I got a copy for my birthday!

It is a "perfectly healthy" jpg-photo, but doesn't work as you can see!

???

I hope someone can help me

Agnessa

I managed to get one of the phoyos working.. It's lunatic but still very cool, I think!

No need to worry anymore!

Agnessa

that is a very good idea linh!
I think you should do a story, on how dance.net started! i'm sure us newer users would love to know! pm me if you decide to!

thank you for explaining

So glad this post is here... I've only just got around to setting an avatar and couldn't work out why I couldn't see it in old posts!

I have tried to set up an avatar but it doesnt seem to work with my pics...can anyone give me advice please!!

You must make 50 comments that add to the site (as opposed to being one or two word comments for the sake of commenting, known as "star farming")
After that you will be able to add an avatar.