WFMW: How to Make Your Avatar Show Up On Blogs

Welcome to this week’s Works for Me Wednesday post!

So how do we make our nifty little avatars show up?  

That’s a question I’ve been wondering since I started blogging this past January.  

I wanted to go from this…

 

to this…

I have a blogger account, so I knew that if I commented on those blogger blogs then my profile pic would show as my avatar.

But how oh how do I get my teenyweeny picture to show up on other blogs comments as well??

Well.  I found the answer.  Finally.

Just go to www.Gravatar.com, sign up for an account.  

The awesome part is they only need your email to sign up.  None of that gimme your name, address, SSN, brother’s aunt’s name, sister’s birthday kinda form fillin’ out!  No personal information is asked for.

 Just your email is needed.  That’s all.

Once you enter your email, a confirmation will be sent to your inbox.  When it arrives, click on the confirmation link.


Then you can upload any picture you want to use as your universal avatar and associate it with the email address you comment with.  You can have a multitude of pictures associated to a multitude of emails.

It’s really easy to add another email to your account….

And just as easy to add new pics…

Then all you need to do is associate a photo with an email address….

…and now on any Gravatar enabled blog, you will see your photo appear beside the comments you leave!

I even made one for Jack-Evan so his photo could easily appear on the author page of the posts done in his voice.  :)  

Cool, no?

So anyway, now you can have your face smiling at everyone you comment to.  And that’s what Works for Me!



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4 comments

  1. suzannah
    December 10, 2008 at 10:56 am

    great tip! i will have to check that out:)

    suzannah´s last blog post..the one where i try not to trip over the carcasses

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  2. @TheGirlPie
    December 18, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    Great! Thanks so much! (Found you near the top of a google search and love your tag line: “that’s what works for me.” Think I’ll be back.)

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  3. Heather @ Not a DIY LIfe
    December 21, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    Finally had a chance to do this. Thanks for the tips!

    Heather @ Not a DIY LIfe´s last blog post..Tackling the To-Do List

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  4. Megan
    February 10, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Thanks for this! I did a search and found you! I had created one before but didn’t remember the website I used! Now I know!!! Thanks a bunch!!! I will bookmark and save different pictures to associate with different email addresses.

    Megan´s last blog post..3 More of 9 Fatal Mistakes Most New Internet Marketers Make

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