Have you ever created your own profiles or accounts in Net? If it is so you should then know that together with the brief information about yourself you can place here also your own photo or any picture which will not only represent but also identify you in the virtual world. If you’ve gone through this process you surely understand what we are speaking about now. Of course we have a deal with avatars. With their help we can easily recognize the person looking at his avatar.  

In this article we are going to make you acquainted a bit nearer with Web Avatars, their modifications or subtypes known as gravatars and wavatars, their view and of course purposes of their usage. 

First let’s start with avatars.

Usually avatar is perceived as your (or your some part) substitute. What does it look like? It can be two or three dimensional snap, icon or image. These small pictures applied on portals for communication like forums, blogs or chat places or any social website like MySpace or Facebook serve to help in participant recognition without addressing to his name or nick. There are cases when people don’t want to reveal the way they look. For these purposes the usage of any picture or image, which speaks about the users’ interests, ideas and preferences can be very helpful. In such a case a person wants to display his vivid personality and own style.

The Avatars are images of little size, which are showed near the user’ posted commentary. On some forums or blogs members can set as avatars any image they want while others portals only give an opportunity to choose something from the proposed in avatar list patterns. Here can be found also animated specimens in which even several characters move simultaneously displaying some plot. 

You can make your profile or account on as many sites as you want. But it isn’t obligatory to have one and the same avatar on all of them. But if you choose one and the same pattern it can look differently in all sites. On some portals you can see your pixilated face on a photo, when others produce a cartoon character of yourself. Such avatars can undergo customizations owing to which you can change avatar backgrounds or add any accessory to it.

What is identicon? It is one of avatars types, which is similar with a geometric image produced with the use of bill’s IP address. Due to this it isn’t necessary for the user to have registration in order to remain recognized.

Now it is time to know what is Wavatar? Wavatar corresponds for icons production and appointment to the attendants who send their commentaries on your page in Net. The wavatar producers had the only aim to enliven communication between people supplying them with funny faces.

What we should understand under Gravatar? It is generally acknowledged  avatar, which you apply at all sites for yourself identification and which emerges every time together with your name when you send a post.   

Now about avatar view. It can be as your own photo as well as any picture which shows your occupations. For example you like dogs then select dog avatars. Or may be you are tradesman then any object of your trade can be set as your avatar.

Choose something from the Avatar Galleryon avatarswizard.com and have fun!