http://www.blogatar.com Your source for Weblog Avatars! Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:05:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been awhile since any work has been done on Blogatar, but I am willing to start adding features again or tweaking anything users would like to see.  Before I do this though, I would love to see if anyone is actually using Blogatar, and if so, how and ... http://www.blogatar.com/2007/06/13/blogatar-usage/ I have been looking at the default avatar that I have for people to use, and decided that I really do not like it! I know that I will create a better one in the future, but I figured I would allow any user to be able to use ... http://www.blogatar.com/2006/12/26/custom-default-avatars/ I noticed today that passing the email address through the URL could be a bad idea. It would leave all of the email addresses exposed for anyone viewing your weblog's source code. To fix this issue, I have decided that email addresses must be hashed (md5) before getting passed ... http://www.blogatar.com/2006/12/25/security-update/ The retrieval of avatars is quite simple right now. All you have to do is type in the URL "http://www.blogatar.com?email=yourEmail". ***ADDITION*** The yourEmail portion of the URL must now be md5 hashed. This has been added to better secure email addresses of your readers. If you ... http://www.blogatar.com/2006/12/24/how-do-you-retrieve-avatars/ I have been very interested in a service allowing people to show an avatar image next to their comments that they leave on weblogs. It added a nice personal effect to the comment. When I finally found out where to upload an image of myself I found out that they ... http://www.blogatar.com/2006/12/24/it-has-finally-arrived/