Why do you still not have a Gravatar?
A gravatar, is a “globally recognized avatar”, basically like an icon that is used among hundreds of blogs, if you were to comment them.
Why?
They help you identify your self among other people. Would you rather have an ugly grey icon represent you, or your own nifty avatar? For example, if I was browsing through comments at swimchick.net, and I needed to find Christine’s comment, I would look for her gravatar. They just give people an identity in the web world.
How?
They are 80 x 80 px images, which you can design any which way you want! They can also be cropped to size at the gravatar site, so don’t worry about size just yet. I just changed mine from this to this.
Examples:
What are you waiting for? Get one already!
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Thanks to: Symmetric Web and Smashing Magazine.
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