I am trying to get a new avatar - one from a different site.  I have tried, but obviously I am doing something wrong, because it just comes up as a red X.  Can someone give me step by step instructions.  Thanks.

what site are you trying to link it from?...if its angelfire or geocities it wont work

I am having the same problem

No it is not from either one of those sites

mine is from

http://www.animfactory.com/

they could have it blocked too......hmm...make sure it only has one 'http://' and make sure it ends in either .jpg or .gif

Tripod sites don't work either.
And with some jpg. pics they will have the jpg in capitals.  Just change it to lower case and it will work fine.

Didn't know you could use your own avatar!

Yeah, go into Your Control Panel - Avatar Settings, and then you can put in a url to a picture that you want to display.

Thank you, I hope it worked!

Finally got a new avatar to work - like this one the most!!
And since I put in a new avatar - had to change my sig pic too!

i like it.

why thank u!