As you can tell, there have been quite a few changes to the site design of Dangerous Intersection. There are many more changes to come.
Therefore, if you see something that looks not quite right for the next couple of weeks, we’re probably working on it. It’s taken many hours of work–I now know ten times as much about WordPress [1] as I did one month ago. But it’s also been fun and educational. WordPress is a most impressive system, with perhaps too many choices. Too many choices [2], did I say?
Sign up for Gravatar!
You can personalize your comments with your own image. Truly, it’s EASY. It will take 5 minutes at most, assuming you have an image of yourself ready. It’s totally free.
With Gravatar, you have total control over the image you’d like to use as author of comments (your photo will be displayed next to each comment you make). You can change it any time you want, Total control. Ownership society!
Just visit Gravatar [3]
– Set up an account with the email address you normally use when you leave comments and choose a password
-upload a photo of yourself. Make it a GOOD photo (whatever the hell that means).
– Crop the photo at Gravatar by stretching the little cropping device over that part of the photo you’d like (presumably all of it)
– Associate that photo with your email address (you can associate that photo with multiple email addresses, if you want.
-Tell Gravatar the “rating” of your photo (presumably it’s “G” rated (I’m only displaying “G” rated at DI).
That’s it. Whenever you leave a comment using that email address, your image will pop up too. Not just at DI, either. It will work at numerous other Gravatar-enabled sites.
So join us with your thoughtful comments and your smiling face!
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