Can't use custom avatar!

[Jedi Spartan]

Hey crew, I'm finally (trying) to set up my personal avatar image, but the forums won't let me. In the avatar pull-donw menu, I have "None" and a preset. If I pick none, and enter the location of my avatar - nothing. Almost the same if I pick the single preset avatar - I get that preset, even if I overwrite that preset's web location with my own.

I also tried setting dimensions, and even making a smaller version to fit within the 100x100 rules.

Am i missing something somewhere?

[LiveWire]

Are you using photobucket or other image hosting site?

These are the settings I have mine set as...

Avatar: None
Avatar URL: http://<address>
Avatar width: 100
Avatar height: 100

[Reaper]

are you still having trouble? you have an image displayed now, not sure what it should be.

[Jedi Spartan]

Nope, still not working. That image you saw is the default option. I am linking to my image on my own (google) site.

[Reaper]

post the image here, I'll see if I can get it to work, using the admin access.

[Jedi Spartan]

Here is the picture I am trying to use.

sites.google.com/site/snowburnersquad/unsc-marines-halo-3/images/DSC00282_cropped.jpg

Interesting. I have linked to images on my google sites at other forums. This one just doesn't like it for some reason.

[Reaper]

there you go sir, It's showing for me now, I set it all to 100 and all that good stuff. Let me know if you need anything else.

[Jedi Spartan]

Woohoo! Thanks boss! So, how did you get it to work? Looks like it is still linking from my site. I'm quite computer competant, so I'm sure I didn't miss anything.

[Reaper]

I didn't do anything special, just plugged the url into the avatar area and set the size. Take a look at the settings, make sure you were putting the url in the right spot. Another problem might have been having a space in there itg could have thrown off something.