Avatars- A small Graphical Image

I think all of us are familiar with chating. Chating with our friends and with our family members makes all of us to be closer with eachother. Using msn, yahoo, google we are chating with each other.
Forums, discussion boards and some online communities like orkut, HI5, Myspace are the place where large number of peoples will meet together and share their thoughts and feelings. There are the place where they will meet new friends and other peoples.

One thing when we come to these sites is that they are offering you a chance to change your screen name as you like. For this you can use Avatars, in most cases these sites will provide some avatars, so that we can use these avatars to represent our self. These images will appear whenever you will make a post in the site.

Finally, I come to avatars. Avatars are a small graphical or a pictures which is used to represent your name. Usually these picture will show how you are. This picture may be a terror image, stylish or it looks like a calm guy.

Below this I'm showing the use of avatars and how they will look when we post anything in forums.















When we use avatars these will help others to judge yourself and about your nature.
I thought you are now aware of avatars and in the next post sure I will show you the size and where we can get these type of avatars to use for these purpose.

Get in touch of these icons

Application Icons :
Generally application icons are used within in software of specific computer applications.They are a built-in part of the software. Mainly applicable in Software like MS Word, Photoshop, Internet Explorer, Excel.


Website Icons :
Just like application icons they are usually icons people can universally associate with the given function. Mainly applicable in Internet (website) - Interface, navigation


Avatars :
These icons are representations of users in a shared virtual reality. Within online virtual communities and Internet forums. Avatars are pictures mainly applicable in Web Forums and some Bulletin Boards.

Desktop icons :
The most commonly recognized icons by most people. They are used to convey purpose of an available function on a computer. On a very graphic oriented Windows environment such as Windows XP the common desktop icons you might see are “My Computer”, “Recycle Bin”, and various file folders with labels.Mainly applicable in OS Desktop - Windows, Macintosh, Linux KDE/Gnome

Emotion icons :
Emotion icons are images (icons) which allow participants to express their opinions visually. The icon image emotion icons are a relatively new idea and allow flexibility for better conveying variations and subtleties in human expression.Emotion icons are also called smileys. Mainly applicable in Chat Software - AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, Chat programs

Rogue Icons :
Rogue Icons tend to fit into more than one icon type because of their size and format. So really they are less confined than the standard icon types but they cause a lot of confusion since they do not fit into any one category.
Misfits are icons that simply don't fit into ANY category