Any questions I'll try to help.

Anyone know how to do an avatar without a computer?
How about support for .gif files?

im fixing to try it....im not good with all that but i will follow so i can have more than one image in my signature...this could take me a while

I'm here to help just ask or PM.

Yay, it worked. Thank you very much : )

Good luck with the granny next door ; )

iPad assist..... (@ OPs request)

Resizing pics on iPad:
(sorry- dont know how to do the cool screen shots)
I used ever clipper on my iPad, resized (chose option closest to 640x480)and saved. It saves to your camera roll in your photos. The help section in the app helped me figure out which icon was crop vs. Resize. It is an app primarily for iPhones so you either use it small or blown up on the iPad.

Posting said resized pics from photobucket to forum:
Then I upload it to the photobucket app from there. With the picture you want to post open, use the icon that looks like chain links to find the links availiable. If you select the IMG link from that list in photobucket it will copy the link to your clipboard. Then paste link directly into your post. the IMG link posts the picture directly, as is into your post.

Tip: I don't want the duplicate resized pics to end up in my iPhoto albums as smaller duplicates so I delete them from my camera roll (resized image only) after uploading to photobucket. I find myself with too maNy duplicates anyway!

Hope this helps! I just learned.

Another tip:

Sometimes I post random pix from a Google image search. Even if their 648x480 or smaller I still run them through a photo editor to save or share them. This way there're always the same file type as sometimes I get errors uploading.