Not being inspired to write any actual content today, I thought I'd spruce up my site appearance a bit. Although I have not got a flood of visitors yet, there have been a few comments left and the 'geometric pattern' icon next to my name was starting to look a bit lame. So a quick Google later, and I learn that these blog comment icons are from a company called Gravatar , which stands for Globally Recognized Avatar. You just sign up for free and upload a photo. Then I refreshed my site page and there were my new photos. Lovely and simple. The one hitch was choosing a unique name without using spaces or punctuation. My actual name had gone already of course so I have ended up with a bit of a longwinded combination of my name and the site name.

When I reach the backlink building stage I will be commenting on lots of other sites so a nice picture will be important. As you can tell from my alias and icon above I am not a big fan of putting my face on the internet, but I said I would try everything to make a go of this site, so there my face is. By the way, my blue monster Parleo avatar icon that I use here and on Squidoo was done by an illustrator friend of mine. Check out her illustration site if you like it.