[David E. Gervais]

Specifically speaking,.. the avatars are 48x48 pixels, the file format can be .gif or .jpg. Yes shrapnel does permit the uploading of .bmp's but this file format is not supported for avatars.

You can use a larger sized pic and the image will automatically be rescaled to 48x48, but I found it best to do the reducing myself rather thatn leave it to the forum software.

As for file size, most if not all my gifs are 3k or less. the animated gifs are generally under 24k (I don't plan on posting too many of these!)

Cheers!