For people having picture trouble...

[Roku Ni-San]

There are some cases in which some people's avatars and/or signatures do not appear. I don't really know why that's happening, but here are a few things you might try to fix the problem...

Signatures

1. If you've used a hosting site like photobucket.com to host your picture, try putting the URL into a separate post. If I can get access to the picture through the URL, I can upload the picture to my own photobucket account. Then I can post the bbcode in a separate post, and you can copy and paste the code into your own signature. Either that or I could put it directly into your signature if you want me to. Don't worry, I won't need an account password. It's an admin thing.
If you don't trust administrators, you can just paste the code into your signature yourself. ^-^

2. If you can't get the direct link to the picture to work at all, try to get the link to the site where the picture is found. Copy the link, and paste it into a new post. Just remember to indicate where on the page the picture is located. I can try and get the picture on my own photobucket account. The rest of the procedure is just like #1.

Avatars

Avatars work pretty much the same as signatures. If I can get access to the picture somehow, through a direct link or a link to the site where the picture is found, I can upload it to my photobucket account. I can then either add it to the avatars list, put the bbcode into a separate post, or enter its URL into your profile... but if you don't trust admins, you can either ask me to add it to the avatars list or ask me to put the code into a separate post. I won't do anything without your permission, so don't worry. ^-^

[Ayumi Kasanagi]

How do I put a siggy/avater into my post?

[Roku Ni-San]

Do you mean actually putting the pictures into the text of the post message? If that's what you mean, you would copy and paste the direct link (URL) to the picture into the message text and put image tags at the beginning and end (just highlight the picture's URL and click on the square button that has a picture of a photograph on it).

Or do you mean actually uploading avatars and signatures to your profile?
Avatars - Get an image hosting site like Imageshack or Photobucket to host the image. When you host an image at one of these sites, it will give you a URL for that image. Copy and paste the URL into the "Avatar URL" section of your profile when you go to edit your profile.
Signatures - The image is hosted the same way as for avatars. Copy the URL for the image, go to edit your profile, and paste it into the large text box where you edit your signature. In order to make it display as a picture, you have to surround the URL with image tags.

So if the URL for the image was
http://picture1.blah.com

Then, you'd put the image tags at the beginning and end so that it would show up in your signature as an image and not as a URL.
[IMG]http://picture1.blah.com[/IMG]

Hope that helped. Just one thing - generally, when we want to ask a question on this board, we start a new thread for it.

*locks topic*