If you’d like a little image to show up next to your comments (very small in the Latest Comments section in the sidebar, not so small next to the actual comment), you will need to sign up for a Gravatar — a Globally Recognized Avatar.
Sign up requires an email address and a password, uploading the image you want to use (and cropping it), a few other minor tweaks, and voila wherever you comment using that email address the image (the gravatar) will appear — well, it will appear if the particular website or blog is configured for gravatars, as NewMexiKen now is.
The hardest part for me was choosing an image — something I still haven’t settled on.
checking to see if my gravatar works.
they are tiny.
Checking on my gravatar.
I tried to set up an account and after nine or ten hours have yet to receive a reply from them.
Hooray gravatars!
Clearly I got an account established, but only with another email address. They never answered two attempts through a Hotmail account.
NewMexiKen, why are you using a picture of Dubya as your avatar?
I’m removing the little tiny gravatars from the Latest Comments section in the sidebar. Any bigger and they’d be clutter. This small they are silly.
The gravatars are nicely-sized I think with the comments on the single post page and not too bad in the home page drop down (Show Comments).