What is Gravatar?
Gravatar
A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Gravatar Image help identify your posts on web forums, weblogs and other gravatar enabled sites.
Quite simply, you use a lot of websites (social networks, forums, commenting on blogs, etc.), and on each of these you most likely use an avatar, a little picture representing you as an icon. It’s rather time consuming, and boring, setting up an avatar on each and every site that you use, isn’t it? Let’s be honest here, isn’t it boring trying to find that same little picture on your computer every time you join a new site? Yes it is, at least for me.
Now, wouldn’t it be rather useful if each website you joined, knew what your avatar was just by your e-mail address? Think about it, no more having to keep and find that little picture on your computer, and upload it as part of joining every new website. Not only that, but it would also just come up whenever you left a comment on someone’s blog.
How Does it work?
A commenter creates an image suitable for a gravatar and uploads it to his account on gravatar.com. The gravatar is rated using pretty much the same ratings as the movie industry: G, PG, R, and X. These ratings are used by bloggers to set limits on the kinds of gravatars that appear on their sites — a gravatar with a G rating will appear everywhere while a a gravatar with an X rating may not appear on many blogs at all.
Meanwhile, a blogger (like me) sets up his/her blog to enable it for gravatars. (i.e. using gravatar plugin) Then, when a commenter submits a comment, the blog’s gravatar plugin (automatic since WordPress 2.5) takes the commenter’s e-mail address (submitted in the comment form) and attempts to find a match at gravatar.com. If it finds a match, it displays the corresponding image. (The e-mail address is not used anywhere in the underlying page code.) so dont worry about email phishing bots. If there’s no image on file, the blog software either displays nothing or displays a default image chosen by the blogger.
How to create a your own gravatar?
Creating an avatar is as easy as it gets, there are quite a few steps to do that.
Follow these steps to creat your own gravatar.
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About the author: I am Phesto Enock, Tanzanian male living in Finland, professionally a software engineer, a blogger and online business researcher. I love technology and its wicked twists. I am a main author of NiftyEyeBlog So let us share our experiences. Read more from this author
Here is my avatar! nice uh!
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it is useful, i ll make my avtaar.
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