I Think it would be nice, if there would be a small Userpic next to every topic or news that is posted. I have no idea about PHP, on my Blog, we always copy an html-img-string into the first line of our posts… (e.g. my Blog http://www.ankhz.de )

Update by TrenT - This can be done by:

1) Create a 'avatar' (e.g. member avatar images) directory inside your existing media directory.

2) Create avatar images for each member you already use. All images have to be of the same format (e.g. only .gif or .jpg or .png).

3) Also, the name of the avatar image and member to correspond: for member use TMA.jpg if my login ID is TMA

4) Upload these to /media/avatar/

5) From the admin area, go to the templates section.

6) Select the template you want the member avatar image to appear, add the following piece of code to your Item Body Template:

<a href=”<%authorlink%>”><img src=”author” alt=“Author: <%author%>” /> </a>

7) Add the same code snippet to your detailed Item Body Template.

Update by RcH - One thing you might want to do..

It might be useful to have something that checks to see if the file /media/avatar/<%author%>.jpg exists before displaying the image, or subbing out /media/avatar/unknown.jpg or something settable if the image doesn't exist.