devdisko{dot}comGravatar http://devdisko.com shake your fake tan thru aerosol land Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:24:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Why You Should be Using Gravatar http://devdisko.com/oddities/why-you-should-be-using-gravatar/ http://devdisko.com/oddities/why-you-should-be-using-gravatar/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:59:09 +0000 ZWJ http://devdisko.com/?p=181 Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) is a free service from Automattic – the folks behind WordPress and bbPress. The concept is simple; you register one of your many email accounts with them and upload an image (it doesn’t have to be of you) that you’d like to be associated with the account.

You don’t need to have a website or be a member of any specific community.

That’s it! From then on any time you leave a comment on a website or blog that has the feature your avatar will appear beside your undoubtedly witty and fascinating remarks.

As a person who runs a few websites I would even say that having an avatar is a basic courtesy to the site you are leaving comments on. Web developers labor for hours on the aesthetic of their sites and quite often build avatars into the function of the comments section to compliment the look. Not using an avatar can seriously distract from the look of a site and generally make the comments section feel transient and unprofessional at no fault of the designer.

So sign yourself up at Gravatar today!

Example of page with mixed avatar usage.

Example of page with mixed avatar usage.

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