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  • Chuck Scott 1:22 PM on April 27, 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
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    How To Get Your Picture to Appear Next to Your Posts 

    As you click around various posts you might notice the photos and images associated with the authors of blog posts and comments.

    These images automatically appear because Church Chat is “gravatar enabled” thus if you have a gravatar associated with your email address, voila – that image automatically appears with your posts and comments.

    If you do not have a gravatar, then our system is set to use “identicons” which are geometric designs that are unique to your email address.

    You can get a free gravatar here -> http://gravatar.com

    Make sure you register your gravatar with an email address you plan to use when posting and commenting on gravatar enabled blogs like Church Chat. And yes, your gravatar will also appear on other blogs when you post and comment provided those blogs are gravatar enabled.

    This gets a bit into personal branding and I thoroughly recommend getting a gravatar if you have not already done so. And no, you don’t have to use a picture of you – can be any image – a favorite pet, cartoon, etc but it is gonna be small (e.g., 32×32 pixels or 16×16 pixels) so details get crunched.

    The important thing is to pick an image that reflects you, your personality, taste, style, good sense, et al. :)

     
    • Father Chip 3:03 PM on June 2, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      This my first venture into ChurchChat and it is the Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord into Heaven… The final words of Jesus as he returned to the Father were… “Behold I will be with you, even till the end of time.” THAT should give us all great peace and solace.
      Welcome to ChurchChat! In this forum we hope to enlighten, encourage and inspire each other so that His Will may be done through us in our lives.
      Ad marjoram Dei gloriam!
      (All for the greater glory of God!)

  • Chuck Scott 12:03 PM on April 22, 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
    Tags: images   

    Image Upload Tests … 

    The question of whether or not to allow image uploads was something that became evident when testing Church Chat functionality and I uploaded the photo below …

    Originally I had uploaded it and glossed over the image align setting thus the image was right aligned by default which broke the entire theme as it pushed certain items off page and allowed other posts to run into each other – ugh!

    After a bunch of debugging and further testing, we decided that since all MyStJoe members have author access (e.g., create your own posts) – all of whom with varying degrees of computer literacy, we felt it best to remove the file upload feature with Church Chat posts.

    Splish Splash a test image

    Splish Splash

    Now I can appreciate why Twitter limits their posts to 140 characters and text only – keeps it fast and simple – aka chat friendly ;)

    I should also point out the various social media icons that accompany each of post hence making it easy for you (and others) to share Church Chat posts on various social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Digg, plus …

     
  • Chuck Scott 11:40 PM on January 27, 2011 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

    Welcome to StJosephBrookfield com Network and our new… 

    Welcome to StJosephBrookfield.com Network and our new Church Chat site on this network.

    Technically we created Church Chat to be a fun area for MyStJoe Members to blog about:

    • What’s Your Favorite Reason for Being a Catholic and/or what do you like most about being Catholic?
    • What’s Your Favorite Psalm?
    • What’s Your Favorite Hymn?
    • Who’s Your Favorite Saint?
    • What’s Your Favorite Religious Holiday?
    • What’s Happening Around Brookfield?
    • What’s Good and/or New in Your Life?
    • What’s On Your Mind?

    These were just some initial ideas and subjects but feel free to blog about as you see fit and we hope you enjoy Church Chat ;)

     
    • Mr WordPress 11:40 PM on January 27, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Hi, this is a comment.
      To delete a comment, just log in and view the post's comments. There you will have the option to edit or delete them.

      We should also mention that one of the cool features of Church Chat is that you can subscribe to an email thread you enjoy – thus get an email whenever somebody posts a new comment to that thread.

      This way you don’t have to keep coming back and checking to see if there are any new comments.

      You can also just as easily unsubscribe to a thread to stop receiving emails 24×7.

      • Jane Petreycik 1:11 PM on April 24, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        this is just another comment that shows threaded comments that cascade …

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