Participant Icon.

Alice, I'll go take a look at the options on the sig and be right back with some suggestions.

OK - I'm back and what I thought was the case, is the case. You need to link the participant icon to your sig using a URL. So, you'll need to have the participant image hosted somewhere for you to get a URL to use.

I use Photobucket, there are other sites that do free hosting of images as well. I'm sending you a PM with other info. Hope it helps.

Hey Dawn, care to explain the whole image thing to me using small non-technical words?

If I save the graphic to a hosting site like photo bucket, how will it know my word count? I'm so confused. What else is new?

Here's how you get the counter...

<img>http://www.nanowrimo.org/NanowrimoUtils/LiveParticipant/USERNUMBER.png</img>

Only, you have to go into your own VIEW PROFILE page. Look in the Website Address Bar...the last 5 digits are your usernumber. Use the string above, replacing < > with square brackets and replacing USERNUMBER with your 5 digit number. Also...it knows by reading your updated word count at nanowrimo...so you must keep updating it there.

Hope that helps, Sarah.

Wait? You're not talking about the counter are you...never mind. Carry on.

Yes, Kevin! You are a gem. Thanks a million. And great job getting yourself kickstarted early this morning! I'm going for the fast and furious approach, myself.

Cwap. I'm already behind.

Then get off the boards and get to writing!

testing counter icon

It works! Yay!

Oh cwap. You're ahead of me. Must. Beat. Rabe.