Gravatars

Your profile has an email address associated with it. When I created each of your accounts on this blog I added your domain name email to the profile, which you can keep there, or change that field to reflect another email address. It’s important to have an email address that is useful to you since in the event you forget your password you can self-care for getting it reset via email.

The other thing is that when commenting on any blog an email address is required, or being logged in on that blog in some cases. In our case only the people I allow to be registered can read or write anything at all. There are no guests of any sort. You must, therefore, be logged in to read any posts, or comment on any posts.

Have you heard of avatars? How about Gravatars? What is a Gravatar, and why might it be important to you? A “Gravatar” is a Globally Recognized Avatar. You associate your email address with a particular, to you, avatar. Then any place you log in with that email address will most likely be able to pull in your personal avatar next to your comments. This makes your comments look like yours. Easy to spot and identify.

Why might this be important to you on this particular site? We are siblings and we can have pictures that ID us to each other when we comment on each others posts and comments. It’s one easy layer that aides in communication.

If you do not set-up a Gravatar you will have a “monster” one generated for you here. It will remain faithful to you on this blog. It won’t travel with you to another blog though. Not that y’all ever comment anywhere else, you might, like two of you have been known to comment on one of my public blogs in the past. Vast numbers of people have Gravatars on the web. My own family doesn’t seem to have any, or have any contact online much at all.

I tried setting this sort of thing up before, but this time it’s better. It’s my own paid hosting site. It’s a domain unto itself as well. And it’s private.

So, please use any email address you wish for your profile, and get a Gravatar associated with it. I would love to have company with real Gravatars, not generated Monsters 🙂

Go to: http://en.gravatar.com/.