CNN, This Is How You Add An Avatar

Something that is starting to drive me CRAZY!  Blogs that make it into the Blogs of the Day and they haven’t even figured out how to add an Avatar to their blog.  They can write good enough material to make it into the BOTD but they have a boring/plain Avatar.  As I write this there is one of these plain Avatars setting at #2.  It is CNN Politics: Has Palin snubbed Oprah? If CNN doesn’t have a clue then how many other bloggers are blogging with a boring Avatar?

Don’t worry becuase I am going to give you step by step directions on how to add an Avatar.

Step 1: Log into your WordPress account.

Step 2: Once you log in to your account click on the name of your site located underneath your boring Avatar (left side of screen).

Step 3: This step use to be more simple but now we have WordPress 2.7.  Don’t worry because it is still easy enough.  Find the Users heading.  Now click on the arrow to the right of it.  A menu will drop down and you should see a Authors & Users, Your Profile, and Invites.  Click on Your Profile.

Step 4: On the right side of the screen you will see My Picture.  This is wear you can upload a picture of your choice from your computer.  The picture should be the same width and height.  If you need to re-size a photo I prefer Photobucket.  Once your done browsing for a photo click Upload Image.

Step 5: Now you will see Crop uploaded image.  Click on the bottom right dotted-line and your picture should crop to the correct place.  Now click Crop Image.

Step 6: All Done! That’s it.  I have had to wait up to half an hour to see my new, shiny, Avatar.

PS: Remember that even if you choose an ugly picture for your Avatar it will be much, much better than a generic generated Avatar that WordPress provides.  Come on CNN, it is time to change your Avatar.