pardon my ruduness 2 things please dont call me a newbie it will make me irratable like iwas win posted the latter and who says matey the dont even say that in pirate movies any more no offence meant of course i think my avatas about the righ sise now but i cant make any smaller now you see mandalorian deplomacy pardon any grammatical or spelling errors Emm.. that's the wrong attitude for a newbie, matey. You may have noticed your last avatar completely borked the boards on account of it being virtually 800x600 in size. Your latest one (i've just adblocked again) is still doing it on account of it's size. In your profile, where you change your avatar, there's the following little piece of guidance: Displays a small graphic image below your details in posts. Only one image can be displayed at a time, its width can be no greater than 80 pixels, the height no greater than 80 pixels I think this is what JH was pointing out. Whilst we're a pretty laid back bunch, your avatar's are corrupting the board's layout. Play ball, and you'll win friends!