Whats an Avatar?
An avatar is a little icon that appears next to your screen name in the list of current users in the chat room. Avatars are used differently in different PULPchats. When a PULPchat is used for customer service, an avatar next to several screen names indicates that these are the representatives of the company. This way, there is no confusion about who works for the company and who is a visitor. Each PULPchat can have its own custom avatar to represent its company or website. When PULPchat is used as a public forum, avatars can be used to add some personality to a person’s screen name. Some PULPchats allow anyone to have an avatar while others only allow registered users to have avatars.
Avatars are images that appear below your user name on the messages that you’ve posted as well as your user information page. FUDforum supports 3 types of avatars, some of which may or may not be enabled by the forum’s administrator. You may choose an avatar for yourself from your profile page. • Built In – These are the avatars the Admin has made available, you can choose one of those avatars and it will become your avatar as soon as you submit the change to your profile page. • Upload Avatar – If enabled, you can upload an image that would be your avatar to the server. Once uploaded, it would need to be approved by the administrator before it becomes your avatar. • Specify URL – If enabled, you can specify a URL to an image, that you wish to be your avatar. If approved by the administrator, this image will become your avatar. note: You may change your avatar at any time, however the Uploaded & URL avatars will always need to be approved prior to going live on the forum.
An avatar is a graphic representation of you in cyberspace that you design. You can create an avatar on Yahoo by going to avatars.yahoo.com. This service lets you choose clothes, hair styles, and back ground. Once you’ve done that you can use your Avatar to represent in places like Answers (rather than the generic smiley face).
