I have replaced the member name above my profile picture with an image.

Did you know that when you edit your "About Me", you can place an embedded stylesheet at the top?

Start with <style type="text/css> and end with </style>, then continue with whatever styles you want in your profile and About Me page. Not all of them will work, due to filtering, but a lot of them will work.

You can place various styles inside those tags. I have tweaked a few things in my profile to make it a little more colorful and unique.

Todays tip will be about changing the member name above the profile picture.

If you use an image, you'll need an image somewhere accessible by url on the internet. You can use web space provided by your ISP, a photobucket or flickr account, web hosting or whereever you have web storage.

I can't remember whether I created my image with Gimp or Inkscape, but it was one of those. You can create it with whatever you have, or use free online tools like cooltext.com or gifworks.com. The box the image is in is 222pixels wide and 22 pixels high. Ideally, you shouldn't exceed that.

Once you have an image online, use CSS to hide the existing text and put your image as a background image.

So, I have in my about me, at the very beginning:

<style type="text/css>

div.profileNav div.memberName, div.adminNav div.memberName {
color: rgb(255,255,255);
text-align: left;
text-indent: -100.0px;
background-color: rgb(255,255,255);
background-image: url(http://dlh1.com/images/xpress.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center center;
}

</style>

Replace the background-image url with your own.

Actually, I have a few more styles, but the above is what replaces the member name with the image.

I'm also wondering if there is any interest in tips like this one. ??

I was thinking about starting a group about tweaking profiles, journals, or posts with CSS and HTMl, or one about web page creation in general. I'm not sure if I have enough time or whether there is any interest.