What is a gravatar?

Submitted by Lee on Friday, 12 December 20083 Comments

Someone asked via email about these gravatar things we have enabled in our blog, so I though I would post the answer here.

From the Gravatar site:

What is a Gravatar?

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on blogs?

gravatar

How do I get a gravatar?

Signing up for a gravatar.com account is FREE, and all that’s required is your email address. Once you’ve signed up you can upload your avatar image and soon after you’ll start seeing it on gravatar enabled blogs!

Once you have your gravatar it will show on anly blog you leave a comment on (if they are gravatar enabled). Easy.

Visit the Gravatar site here.

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