Got Your Cowboys Gravatar Yet?

An article by Joe D.    Comments Off

Ever wonder why avatars or icons show up on some blogs but not on others? If yours doesn’t show up, having a Gravatar can help.

A Gravatar is a free globally recognized avatar, which is an icon that travels with you and appears beside your name when you comment on Gravatar-enabled blogs.

WordPress, Blogger, Movable Type and LiveJournal are just a few examples of Gravatar-enabled blog platforms.

Each Gravatar is keyed to an e-mail address, so you can have as many as you want. To make a particular Gravatar image show up when you make a comment on a blog, just enter the e-mail address associated to that image when you make a comment.

Gravatars are more flexible than regular avatars, because you can have more than one. If you have multiple blogs, all you need is a different e-mail address for each and you can have as many Gravatars as you need.

You can go here to register for a Free Gravatar. No registration info is needed, other than an e-mail address.

Here are some free gravatars you can use. Just save the one you like to your computer and then upload it when you register at gravatar.com.