The beta for Avatar Gallery 2 has been extended until August 5th. You can download the new beta in the Downloads section. If you installed the previous version, which expire May 5th, just unzip the download, get the php and xml files for the module, and FTP them up to YouSite.com/modules, replacing the old one. That way, any CSS customizations you've done won't be overwriten.

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UPDATE March 5th, 2008: Avatar Power Pack Released!!! Add 400 avatars to the 145 normally included, for a total of 545 avatars. Never show your visitors the same avatar twice!!

AutoAssign Avatars: Give all your Members Avatars

You spend countless hours perfecting a whole website, only to discover that many of your users simply will not upload their own avatar. Doesn't exactly make your site look well-travelled, does it? Now there's a way to randomly assign these users their own avatar. Makes your site look personalized, popular, and professional, thereby encouraging traffic and additional registrations.

Avatar Gallery: Showcase Your Membership

The Avatar Gallery displays Community Builder ( Joomlapolis.com ) avatars in the various module positions of your website, thus making your site much more "social networking aware."

In order to make the Avatar Gallery powerful and flexible, some sophistication with SQL and CSS is assumed. Specifically, SQL is used to query your userbase, so that you can display users who are most relevant to the page content on which the Matrix appears. CSS is used to style the avatars and the data captioned for each user, both near the avatars and in Mootools BubbleTips.

With the right SQL, there's no reason to have separate modules for Most Recent Registrants, Most Popular Users, and so on. You can query and display any information in your Community Builder user tables, information like plumbers in Chicago, Dentists in Nevada, or females with blonde hair from Idaho.

Format avatars to display horizontally or vertically. Put data fields into Mootools bubble tips. And edit module CSS right from the backend!

TRY BEFORE YOU BUY: The demo is fully functional, but displays an unlicensed message about one third of the time. The commercial version has no such limitation.