Don't go nicking Napo from HSE!
You can upload one at My Profile I recall.

oh yeah - IOSH haven't got any - I just liked to a picture on the HSE site...

The forums don't have any standard avatars (what a surprise!)

You have to upload a picture yourself and use that. There used to be a post telling you how to do this but as the search function seems to be broken (again) I can't find it to give you the link!

Thanks

I found the old thread - however unhelpfully it's in the members part of the forums, so no use to anyone who doesn't have access there! I'll try to help...

Go to "My Profile" and click "Modify Avatar". You then get a box that says "Enter URL of Avatar on Remote Server to Use".

What this means is that you aren't actually uploading the picture to the IOSH server. What you have to do is put in the web address (URL) of the picture you want to display.

You have to be careful here not to link to a picture on a site that doesn't allow linking. Effectively as I understand it, every time someone loads a page on the IOSH site with your avatar on, it takes up bandwidth from the site you have linked to. Some sites specifically disallow this - you can usually find it in their conditions of use at the bottom of their home page.

One way around this once you have selected your Avatar is to upload it to a photo-sharing site (Photobucket or Flickr or something like that) and then link to there.

To find the location of a picture, or to save it to your hard drive for uploading to a photo-sharing site, right click on it and it pulls up a menu that gives "Copy image location" or "save image as.." among the options.

To use a photo of your own, you have to upload it to a photo-sharing website first (making sure you comply with the IOSH rules on size and resolution) and then paste that link into the box on the My Profile page.

I hope that helps. It's really not as hard as I am sure I have made it sound!

thanks for letting me know moderator 2, will have another try

Hello

The webteam thought they would shed some light on some of the topics that have been raised in this thread . The forums, as many of you know, do have limited functionality in some areas; this includes the Moderators’ actions, so their avatars were provided by the Web Team.

In reference to the FAQs, this is being reviewed and will change so that you will hopefully find it a more useful tool. If you have any suggestions of what you would find useful to include, we welcome your feedback.

We are also aware that the search function is not working properly at the moment. This utility was built by our previous developers, trying to fix it will not be as straightforward as we would like it to be because of contractual limitations. Nevertheless we are working hard to get this back up and running, please bear with us.

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