CS2: What about some of those nice icons under some of the avatars?
Community Server 2.0 introduced a much more user friendly way to handle role icons than previous versions. For those of you that are new to CS and might not know what role icons are, it's the picture that shows up on some users to the left of their message under their avatar. For example this is what you see to the left of my posts at CS.org:
The picture within the nicely shaped blue rectangle is the role icon. Previously it was, to say the least, not so ovious how you did this, and you had to upload a picture with a name of the guid representing the role for which you wanted to have the icon.
In CS 2.0 you just: Control Panel -> Administration -> Membership -> Manage Roles -> Click on the name of the Role
You get a "dialog" that looks something like this:
One of the button, "Bläddra...", is in swedish because of my browser settings. In english it should be the "Browse..." button. As you can see, you just click that button, select a file from your hard drive, and it's uploaded and shown as an icon for everyone within that role. It can take a while before the icon shows up at the role members forum posts, so have patience.
If looking at a forum thread, and you click a role icon, you will be taken to a list of all users within that role.
Hmm...I go to find out how to get rid of that red border around the screenshots. They where created with Vista's built in clipping tool.