Ok I spent the last 20 minutes trying to resize several pictures for an avatar and no matter what I did other than reducing it to the size of a dot it would say too large or wrong dimensions and I was resizing to 85X85! I am 35 years old and I have been on TONS of forums for many years and I have avatar's on all of them and never had this problem before. 7KB size limit!? LOL.

you have to compress the picture to get the size down

post the picture (original) and I'll try to see what I can do.

Hi JB COMP,

This is the photo after I reduced the size but still said it was too large. Temporary pic until I get a better one

PM me the original and I work on it for you (I did one for another guy, I don't plan on doing this too much, but I like to help out when I can)

look at my avatar its only 3.78 KB so I could have gone bigger, but it still looks good. I have photoshop CS2, I've done a few web pages, so I know how to get the picture size down with out it looking horrible.

they are small so they don't slow page loads down for readers.

imagine 30 avatars on a page at 10k each. that is 300k right there. still dial up users and that would add over 10 seconds to page load. also if the filesize is large they become annoying and overbearing relative to the content.