Have you wondered how to get your picture, your avatar, shown alongside your replies to news posts in our News section?  Well, you need to create a Gravitar (A Globally Recognised Avatar).

A Gravitar is a small image that is associated with an email address.  Social media websites, including those using WordPress (the technology that underpins our site), query the Gravitar system with the email address you associated with the website, if a associated image is found it is returned to the social media site for display.

The Gravitar website explains it like this:

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?

For an example, see: http://www.tsgarc.uk/?p=384#comments

So, if you wish a small image, an avatar, to appear alongside your News replies log onto the Gravitar website, and associate an image with the email address you have associated with the tsgarc.uk website.  If you don’t already have an account on Gravitar, create one. Happy Days! 🙂

Andrew
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