Avatars

Welcome to Ning Avatars (alpha)

The idea here is to provide an easy way to integrate user avatars on your ning applications.

Users

Create your ning avatars NOW!

Developers (documentation)

To display an user img is very simple, just call this url changing the parameters:

http://avatar.ning.com?user=username&size=imagesize

It returns a square image file of the given size and username

optional parameters:

app

your apps name (users can set app specific avatars)

default_img

a image to show when the user dont hava an avatar

Updates

RSS

• December 21: custom "no icon" image support

  Another optional parameter was introduced today: default_img. Use it if you want to change the default image for users without an avatar

• November 3: Gravatar Support

  You can also use your Gravatar on the add avatar screen. If you have suggestions of other services to integrate please let us know.

• November 3: Flickr buddyIcon Support

  Now you can use your Flickr userIcon on the add avatar screen, just select on the drop down menu and insert your Flickr username.

• November 2: RSS Feeds!

  Yes, now we have a RSS feed to track the project updates!

• November 2: Forum updates

  Just to show that I eat my own dog food, I've included user avatars on the forum.

• October 26: Discuss!

  Added a forum to get more feedback, please drop a message. It's a clone of the discuss board app adapted to work under a subdirectory, so it may have bugs :P

• October 22: Minor changes on AddAvatar.php

  Updated the Add Avatar form to be PHP only, once that xn:addContent XNHTML elements currently have a bug regarding special characteres like ç and ã. Thanks to Murilo for submiting an avatar description that crashed the system :)

• October 20: Transparent Gifs now working

  Added support for transparent GIFs. Thanks to Lucas Gonze for pointing the bug.

• October 19: New Layout!

  Thanks to Jake for the mockup concept.

• October 18: Just Launched

Roadmap

Ideas, new features and bug fixes planned for next versions:

• Marketing to reach 10 users and 3 apps :)
• I18n
• Better documentation
• Animated GIF support? (please correct me if I am wrong, but seems that only using GD Library it's not possible to generate animated gifs...)
• Comments on this page for feedback use the "Discuss" button
• Transparent GIF support.
• Website facelift
• Edit/Delete Avatars
• App specific Avatars

Feedback

Use the forum.

You can also reach me by sending a Ning message, discuss on this thread or on irc.ning.com by the nickname Zuardi.

Created by: Fabricio Zuardi on October 18th 2005. If you find it useful, tip me :).